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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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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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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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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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It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
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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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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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When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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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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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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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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Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.
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A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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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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Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
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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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In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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