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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
Bible Translator
Missionary
Non-Fiction Writer
Physician
Theologian
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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
Denying
Christian
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Power
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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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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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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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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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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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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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[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
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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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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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If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
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When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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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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If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
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