Lottie's Quotes

#1. to do with Lottie's final wishes for her memoirs. With the help of Millie and Henry, Fran and

Meredith Kennon

#2. Damn everyone and everything," he said in a low voice. But as he saw the indignant expression on Lottie's face, he added, "Except for you."
"I should hope so," she retorted.
-Nick & Lottie

Lisa Kleypas

#3. The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#4. Oh, silly me. Lottie is Olive's dog. You must have seen her: pretty little black cocker spaniel. Mind you, what Olive's son thought he was doing getting his mother a dog last Christmas, I don't know. Crazy with her health problems; and where is he now? Scarpered off to live in Australia.

Mary Grand

#5. Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.

Lottie Moon

#6. Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

Lottie Moon

#7. Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the "unsearchable riches of Christ" to the heathen?

Lottie Moon

#8. A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: "Go."

Lottie Moon

#9. I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

Lottie Moon

#10. I pretended that it wasn't such a big deal, that I knew we weren't suited, that I agreed with what-ever bullshit rationale you used - 'we don't make each other the best possible versions of ourselves' or what-ever. But you did make me the best 'me'.

Lottie Moggach

#11. Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?

Lottie Moon

#12. Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.

Rahul Karn

#13. And people got divorced, didn't they? If they fell in love with someone else? And that other person was available? These weren't the kinds of questions that could be answered by Google ...

Lottie Moggach

#14. What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

Lottie Moon

#15. How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

Lottie Moon

#16. A wise Chinese saying--'A frog at the bottom of a well has a limited view of the sky.

Dave And Neta Jackson

#17. That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#18. It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

Lottie Moon

#19. How many million more souls are to pass into eternity without having heard the name of Jesus?

Lottie Moon

#20. I have two dogs, Lottie and Charlie.

Helen George

#21. I love you, Lottie, and I want to make you my wife." Stone's low voice rumbled between them. Ardent. Unwavering. Determined. "I'll pursue you," he vowed, "until a parson either joins us in marriage or speaks words over my grave.

Karen Witemeyer

#22. Lottie tilted her head to one side and looked Maya up and down. You're a little bit of a thing, but I hear you're good at stirring up big trouble.

Sara Humphreys

#23. We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

Pope Francis

#24. At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'

Lottie Moon

#25. A new baby is the beginning of a new universe - his own unique universe.

Debasish Mridha

#26. This is my story.
Death tried to kill it;
Grief tried to drown it;
Pride tried to erase it;
Pain tried to hide it;
but
Deep saved it.
My story grew words while waiting in Deep and now my words have wings to fly. Lottie Johnson, age 96

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#27. There is no one road to success, you must find your own route.

Robert Kiyosaki

#28. Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#29. Don't you know that I would give you anything you wanted?" he said softly. "Anything at all."
-Nick to Lottie

Lisa Kleypas

#30. I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!

Lottie Moon

#31. People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place?

Lottie Moggach

#32. Lottie did everything the old fashioned way, including the bookkeeping, which was fine with me since I knew nothing about accounting software anyway. To me, spreadsheets was what I did on Saturday mornings after washing my bed linen.

Kate Collins

#33. Only believe, don't fear. Our Master, Jesus, always watches over us, and no matter what the persecution, Jesus will surely overcome it.

Lottie Moon

#34. One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!

Lottie Moon

#35. I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

Lottie Moon