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.
HUDSON TAYLORIf 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.
More Hudson Taylor Quotes
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You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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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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If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.
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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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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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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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When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
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Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.
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Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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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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While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
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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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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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Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.
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When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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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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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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Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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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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A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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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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Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
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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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