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The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Hudson Taylor

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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Easy Life Power
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
All God’s giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God’s faithfulness.
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Faith God Hold Man Weakness Woman
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
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
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
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God Himself Promise
God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
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Faith God Greatness Himself People
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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Action Believe Heart Leadership Prayer
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
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
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’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
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God Supply Way Work
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
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
[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
When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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God Heart Rest Win
If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.
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Country Funny Give Up Life Myself Patriotic
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
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Myself Prayer Reading Thinking Trust
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
All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
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God Greatness Man Weakness
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Big Dreams Failure God Willing
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
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
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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Failure Mission Polite
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
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
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

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