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It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

Hudson Taylor

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
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
Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
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Change Faith Happiness Joy Ourselves
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Big Dreams Failure God Willing
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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Children Hard Myself Reading Trust Weakness Writing
Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference…instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.
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Bond Failure God Greatness Liberty Live Quiet Victory Weakness
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour’s plain command to go?
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Call Command God Home Obedience Sight Stay Work Yourself
Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.
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Alone God Learning Man Move Prayer
We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?
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God Inspirational People Trust Yourself
There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.
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Majority Minority Social Success
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
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Alone God Learning Man Prayer
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
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Better God Gold Help Himself Rich Yourself
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.
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God Help Himself Perspective Work
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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Complaint Greatness Ourselves Spirit Trouble
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
Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.
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Faith Fear God Labour Reason

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

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It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

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