William Carey Quotes

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• Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
• Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
• I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
• Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
• All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
• Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.
• I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first…
• To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
• William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when…
• When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well,…
• Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
• Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?
• To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
• The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.
• One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
• We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
• The less said about me the better.
• Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I…
• I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
• There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

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