Best Quotes from To The Golden Shore by Courtney Anderson with Page Numbers

"Hardly anything else could explain it."

"True, to anyone but a Congregational minister... Malden would have seemed as pleasant a town to live in as any in Massachusetts."

"His scruples against accepting calls that were less than unanimous faded and finally vanished altogether."

"He was not yet married. Abigail was ten years younger. They would surely have children."

"He needed to settle down. And snug inside that attractive parsonage he could find peace and security with his wife and children, whatever storms might rage outside."

"Both were stoical, forbidding, and austere. His judgments were scrupulously fair; but he had great determination— obstinacy, his enemies would have called it."

"He wanted not merely a church, but one in which every member subscribed to his views."

"Even so, the last diehards went down fighting."

"His personality was one with his creed. Both were stoical, forbidding, and austere."

"Now, in his son's person, he had an opportunity to live his own life over again from the beginning, and in the son's life achieve the ambitions he had renounced in his own."

"He understood that he must undergo inner regeneration before he could look forward to faith and personal salvation."

"Adoniram made an instant impression on these two divines. His personality was ingratiating, yet without false humility."

"But clearly this was not to be accomplished in a few hours of argument."

"He began to suspect he had not seen the forest for the trees, nor the trees for the leaves."

"On the second day of December—a day he never forgot—he 'made a solemn dedication of himself to God.'"

"He banished forever those dreams of literary and political ambition... and simply asked himself, How shall I so order my future being as best to please God?"

"If he could find conviction he could become a minister such as had not been seen since the days of Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards."

"It was during a solitary walk in the woods behind the college, while meditating and praying... that the command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,' was presented to my mind with such clearness and power."

"Everything in his life had prepared him for the idea. A career as the first American foreign missionary curiously combined his many conflicting ambitions."

"There were souls to save in New England, too. And so on... To no avail. Only Adoniram's father had nothing to say. It was obvious that no power on earth could move Adoniram Judson once he had come to a decision."

...perhaps God was giving him a foretaste of missionary life to test his faith and determination.

Supporting himself on his knees as well as he could in the pitching hold, he prayed for strength to withstand his weakness.

At the very depth of his despair, however, a new thought came to him.

He found a boarding place with an American woman who had spent most of her life in France.

He considered the experience invaluable for a missionary.

Behind these words, it was obvious that the Americans were asking for joint control of a mission without offering joint support.

Without the inducement of joint support, the mere suggestion was ridiculous.

It was clear that the English had made no direct reply to the questions it wanted answered.

He had turned his back on all of them.

It might come any time, possibly within a few months. If it did, they might not be able to get away for years.

"He felt it his duty to examine closely a subject on which he felt so many doubts."

"Determined to read candidly and prayerfully, and to hold fast, or embrace the truth, however mortifying, however great the sacrifice."

"Can I forget thee, O my country! Can I forget the scenes of childhood; and the more endearing scenes of riper years?"

"We are confirmed Baptists, not because we wanted to be, but because truth compelled us to be."

"The most trying circumstance attending this change... is the separation which must take place between us and our dear missionary associates."

"O that the Spirit of God may enlighten and direct my mind — may prevent my retaining an old error, or embracing a new one!"

"We feel that we are alone in the world, with no real friend but each other, no one on whom we can depend but God."

"He had a burning determination to convert the heathen himself. For the rest, let others worry."

"I have been accustomed to view this field of labor, with dread and terror; but I now feel perfectly willing to make it my home the rest of my life."

"May we so improve it, that he will stay his hand and say, 'It is enough.'"

"Dynamic Rice, with his amazing persuasive powers, would be coming soon and certainly bring others with him."

"Even the Portuguese priests...were allowed to stay. This was the result of the viceroy's personal mediation with the emperor, which he made more effective with large presents to his ruler."

"He may be enraged, and order off the heads of all concerned. The urbanity, however, with which he treats all foreigners... render such a supposition improbable."

"The cholera epidemic slowly passed. Even the Portuguese priests... were allowed to stay."

"The officials merely made Hough give security for his appearance... with the chilling threat that if he did not tell them everything about what he was doing in Burma 'they would write with his heart's blood.'"

"But news of these events could scarcely reach remote Rangoon in less than a year."

"He evidently did believe in God, in His Son Jesus, and in the atonement. For the very purpose of expressing that desire, I have come here today."

"I think I shall not be lost even though I should die suddenly."

"Teacher, you may be a disciple of Christ in heart, but you are not a full disciple."

"If the teacher Maung Shway-gnong consents, why should I hesitate?"

"...be compassionate to the poor and needy, and give alms."

"Let's cultivate a forgiving spirit. I trust we have in some measure obtained it."

"Though man is prone to jest in the depths of misery; and the bon-mots of the scaffold have been collected..."

"...it is up to Adoniram to supply that message, in the form of a more complete translation of the Gospel."

"The warmth of the greetings, the love of the Burmese disciples, the solicitude for their comfort and well-being — all these filled the hearts of Adoniram and Nancy with gratitude."

"The fact was, Eliza was the 'root of bitterness.'"

"The voyage was unpleasant... the most terrifying thunder and lightning storm they had ever seen."

"Now they had a Burmese church of ten, firm friends by the score, the language was pleasantly familiar, and the Gospel news was spreading far and wide."

"Let the priests turn it back again!" — simple words that blasted the conspiracy.

"Pray to God for light; if you receive light you will be able at once to distinguish between truth and falsehood."

"You can state their case to the queen and obtain their release," Nancy proposed earnestly.

"But it is singular," insisted Nancy.

"Is it right they should be treated thus?"

"I will present your petition," she said. "Come again tomorrow."

"Perhaps he will restore it. But is this all the silver you have?"

"It would be disgraceful," she pleaded, "to take clothes partly worn into the presence of His Majesty, and to us they are of unspeakable value."

"My religion differs from yours. It forbids lying."

"The king does as he pleases," said the princess. "I am not the king. What can I do?"

"With whom should I deposit silver?" retorted Nancy.

"We shall visit your house tomorrow."

...and without Price. He had decided to remain at Ava in the employment of the king.

Adoniram was enthusiastic about the place, and certain it would become a great center from which they could propagate the Gospel.

It was a great thing to change one's religion; that he stood quite alone in these parts; but that, if some of his acquaintances would join him, he would not be behind.

Tell the teacher that the disease was most violent and I could not write.

She said little during her illness. Her mind had seemed to be affected and sometimes her thoughts wandered.

My complaint, it is said, is very much like that of which the late Mrs. Osgood died — not common pulmonary consumption, but something in the throat which puzzled even her attending physicians.

I have lived long enough. I have lived to see accomplished the particular objects on which I set my heart when I commenced a missionary life. And why should I wish to live longer?

May thy memory be ever fresh and fragrant, as the memory of the other beloved, whose beautiful, death-marred form reposes at the foot of the hopia tree.

He began to think of the life remaining to him. He was forty-six years old.

When first contemplating a missionary life, I thought that, if I should live to see the Bible translated and printed in some new language, and a church of one hundred members raised up on heathen ground, I should anticipate death with the peaceful feelings of Old Simeon.

"What cannot be cured must be endured."

"Let us do the duties of religion and of love, and all will be well."

"Trust in God and keep your powder dry; trust in God and love one another is, I think, a better watchword."

"I shall never forget my feelings as I looked over the side of the vessel that night, on the dark ocean, and fancied ourselves with our poor sick and almost dying children, launched on its stormy waves."

"I am willing to die, and I hope I am willing to see her die, if it be the divine will."

"I feel that an effort ought to be made to save her life."

"You cannot assume a great burden unless you first learn to carry the small ones."

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."

"It is no more than the truth to say that there is scarcely an individual foreigner now alive who speaks and writes the Burmese tongue so acceptably as she does."

"We can both afford to be pretty independent of it. And we know it will soon pass away, and still more, that a reaction will probably take place."

I wrote you from walls as massive as any you read of in old stories and a great deal uglier.

I have seen all this before! was a feeling that flashed upon me more frequently at Rangoon than here.

Beware of desperate steps; the darkest day will have passed away.

I am ten times happier than I could be there... And then we are so, so happy in each other.

It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit.

I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from his school.

I have always had so little faith! May God forgive me.

I feel that it has done me good; and it is my impression that I shall now recover, and be a better and more useful man.

Death will never take me by surprise - do not be afraid of that.

It is my impression that I shall now recover, and be a better and more useful man.