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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.

Hudson Taylor

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
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
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 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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God Greatness Ourselves Religious Truth
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
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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Complaint Greatness Ourselves Spirit Trouble
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
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God King Religion
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Greatness Need Ourselves Soul
Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.
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Element Faith God Need Religious Risk
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
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Difficult God Impossible 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
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
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
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Big Dreams Failure God Willing
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
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
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
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

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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