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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.

Hudson Taylor

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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Faith Gratitude Greatness Worth
If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
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Cost Divine True Worth
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
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Devotion Difference God Voluntary
When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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God Heart Rest Win
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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Beginning Day God Harmony Himself Instrument Prayer Word
Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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Hungry Make Up Place Reality Soul
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
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 I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.
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Country Funny Give Up Life Myself Patriotic
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
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
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
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
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
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
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God King Religion
If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.
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Introduction Risk Run Scripture Wait
[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
You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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Faith God Greatness Need
It is not lost time to wait upon God!
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God Time Wait
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
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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Man Myself Prayer See Work
God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
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God Supply Way Work
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
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Difficult God Impossible Work
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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Failure Mission Polite
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
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
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Be Yourself Forget Important

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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