Hudson Taylor Quotes
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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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Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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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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In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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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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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.
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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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Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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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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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 this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
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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 uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
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God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
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The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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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.
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All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.
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Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
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One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
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Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.
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Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.
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If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?
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Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
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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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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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When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
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Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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