“Bible translation – what a task. There’s no job like it. Nothing more demanding, nothing more rewarding, nothing so absorbing.”
“… I never spent four happier years than those first years up on the ridge [living among the Usarufas]. Never! Because life was interesting, even without television.”
Regarding the 1981 celebration and dedication of the New Testament now in Usarufa: “…as soon as I saw those hands reach out for the Word of God [I knew] ‘that’s why I was born.’ ”
– from an address to the Wheaton College Graduate School, Nov 9, 1981