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Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

Hudson Taylor

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
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Devotion Difference God Voluntary
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
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God Himself Promise
When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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God Heart Rest Win
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
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
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Patience Requirement
The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
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Life Lying Reality Satisfaction Secret Surrender Willing
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
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God King Religion
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
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
One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.
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Chance Difficult Fast God Win
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
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
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
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Greatness Need Ourselves Soul
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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Action Believe Heart Leadership Prayer
A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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Faith Gratitude Greatness Worth
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Big Dreams Failure God Willing
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
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
An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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Easy Life Power
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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Cross God Religious Spirit
You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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Faith God Greatness Need
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.
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God Help Himself Perspective Work
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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God Man Power Reality
[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
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
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Be Yourself Forget Important
If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.
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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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