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An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

Hudson Taylor

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Hudson Taylor
Age: 73 †
Born: 1832
Born: May 21
Died: 1905
Died: June 3
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Missionary
Non-Fiction Writer
Physician
Theologian
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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
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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, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.
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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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The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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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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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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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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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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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 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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[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
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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 real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
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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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Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone
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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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When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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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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