Being a Man of One Idea

When pleading the cause of the Heathen and the claims of Jesus on His followers, I have often been taunted with being “a man of one idea.” Sometimes I have thought that this came from the lives of those who had not even one idea! – Unless it were how to kill time or to save their own skin. But seriously speaking, is it not better to have one good idea and to live for that and succeed in it, than to scatter one’s life away on many things and leave a mark on nothing!

—John Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907, born in Scotland, Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific).