William Carey
William Carey
William Careywas a British missionary, a Particular Baptist minister, a translator and an activist. He also opened the first University in Seramporeoffering degrees...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth17 August 1761
William Carey quotes about
men missionary christianity
Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.
future god promises
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
competition form lower market might
It can't do any harm. Any form of competition will even the market out. It might lower prices.
spiritual missionary england
I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.
giving credit too-much
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.
said
The less said about me the better.
common-sense kingdoms fields
...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.
thinking interesting firsts
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
letting-go journey thinking
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.
dream expecting attempting
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God
jesus missionary embrace
To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
lasts missionary daylight
I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
prayer important firsts
One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
prayer missionary tire
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.