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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.

Hudson Taylor

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
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Confession End Kindness Live Love Ourselves Trial
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
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Patience Requirement
Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.
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Consciousness Feeling God Life Myself Teaching
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
One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.
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Chance Difficult Fast God Win
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
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God Himself Promise
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
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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God Man Power Reality
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
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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God Hands Man Work
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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Cross God Religious Spirit
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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Blessing Generosity Happiness Myself Soul
Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.
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Alone God Learning Man Move Prayer
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
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Greatness Need Ourselves Soul
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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Action Believe Heart Leadership Prayer

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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