William Carey Quotations

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

The less said about me the better.

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

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 am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.