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There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

Hudson Taylor

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
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Patience Requirement
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
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Brother Province Yourself
[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
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
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
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Common Faith God Greatness Himself Man
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Big Dreams Failure God Willing
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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God Inspirational Prayer Work
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
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
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Experience Faith God Life Serious Strength Trial
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
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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Failure Mission Polite
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
But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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Faith Method Rest Strength Strive
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 stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
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Difficult God Impossible Work
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
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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Communion Rain Rush Seek Sunshine Worry
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
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Conflict Devil Perspective Reality Religious Work
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
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
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
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
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God King Religion
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
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.
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Devil Movement Ourselves Prevent Slow
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
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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Barrier Devil Ourselves See

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

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