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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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Hudson Taylor
Age: 73 †
Born: 1832
Born: May 21
Died: 1905
Died: June 3
Bible Translator
Missionary
Non-Fiction Writer
Physician
Theologian
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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
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Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
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Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
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Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you—the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.
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Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?
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The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China is in peace, and is in war in abundance, and in penury.
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All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
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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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