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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
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You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
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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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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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An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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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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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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When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
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God's work is not man working for God it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
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A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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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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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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Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.
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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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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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All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
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While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
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