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I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.

Hudson Taylor

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.
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Enough Faith God Himself Rest Small Thinking
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
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Patience Requirement
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
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Enough God Himself Man Weakness
it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.
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Comfortable Dare Learning Leaving Position Small Suffering
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
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Devotion Difference God Voluntary
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
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Command Commission Greatness Obey Option
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
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God Greatness Motivational Myself Practical
One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.
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Chance Difficult Fast God Win
As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.
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Desert Eyes Father Flower God Lonely
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Greatness Need Ourselves Soul
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God’s omnipotency.
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Attempt God Limitation Ourselves Work
Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.
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God Himself Power Strength
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Big Dreams Failure God Willing
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.
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God Heaven Hell Man Reality
Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
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Friendship Ourselves True Wife Worth
The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that – if it is only arranging a window blind!
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Arrangement Career Hard Maintain Prayer

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.

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