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God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

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
As 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.
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Answer Blessing Come Prayer Rule Spiritual
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
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Brother Province Yourself
It is not lost time to wait upon God!
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God Time Wait
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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Failure Mission Polite
If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.
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Country Funny Give Up Life Myself Patriotic
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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Attempt God Limitation Ourselves Work
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
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
An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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Easy Life Power
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
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
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Belief Difficult Faith God See
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
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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God Greatness Heart Lying Pressure Yourself
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
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
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Devotion Difference God Voluntary
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
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
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
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
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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God Inspirational Prayer Work
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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God Man Power Reality
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
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
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
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Patience Requirement
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 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

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