"Young man, sit down: when God pleases to……" — William Carey
"Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine."
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William Carey
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33 Quotes by William Carey
William Carey has 33 quotes on this site.
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Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
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Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
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I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
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Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
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All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
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I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to…
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To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
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William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and…
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When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die,…
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Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
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Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are…
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To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
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More Aid Quotes
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with…
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
— William Ellery Channing
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