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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

Hudson Taylor

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Hudson Taylor
Age: 73 †
Born: 1832
Born: May 21
Died: 1905
Died: June 3
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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
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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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It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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