When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
HUDSON TAYLORAs a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.
More Hudson Taylor Quotes
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If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
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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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The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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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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Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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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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I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
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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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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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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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The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
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[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
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If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.
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If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.
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All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.
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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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Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
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Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
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God’s work is not man working for God; it is God’s own work, though often wrought through man’s hands.
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There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
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The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine…Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.
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The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
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Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
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An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.
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Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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