Top 30 William Carey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.”

— William Carey

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2. “I’m not afraid of failure; I’m afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.”

— William Carey

3. “To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.”

— William Carey

4. “The future is as bright as the promise of God.”

— William Carey

5. “To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.”

— William Carey

6. “I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God’s failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.”

— William Carey

7. “It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.”

— William Carey

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

— William Carey

9. “Prayer – secret, fervent, believing prayer – lies at the root of all personal godliness.”

— William Carey

10. “You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey’s Saviour.”

— William Carey

11. “I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”

— William Carey

12. “Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map.”

— William Carey

13. “Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?”

— William Carey

14. “Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.”

— William Carey

15. “If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.”

— William Carey

16. “I’m a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, “Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God.”

— William Carey

17. “The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.”

— William Carey

18. “We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.”

— William Carey

19. “We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.”

— William Carey

20. “Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.”

— William Carey

21. “All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.”

— William Carey

22. “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.”

— William Carey

23. “There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.”

— William Carey

24. “The less said about me the better.”

— William Carey

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

— William Carey

26. “A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.”

— William Carey

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

— William Carey

28. “I feel that it is good to commit my Soul, my Body, and my all into the Hands of God, Then the World appears little, the Promises great; and God an allsufficient Portion.”

— William Carey

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

— William Carey

30. “Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.”

— William Carey

31. “The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.”

— William Carey

32. “William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.”

— William Carey

33. “In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?”

— William Carey