All God’s giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God’s faithfulness.
HUDSON TAYLORBut how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
More Hudson Taylor Quotes
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When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
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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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Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.
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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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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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If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.
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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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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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A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
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Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
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An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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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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God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
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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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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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Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
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Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.
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Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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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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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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Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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