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Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Hudson Taylor

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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
Christianity
Forget
Important
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Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?
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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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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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When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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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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We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
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Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
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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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There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
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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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Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.
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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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Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone
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When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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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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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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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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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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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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