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• Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

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  Jesus, Bears

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• Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.

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  Sweet, Jesus, Sleep

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• So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.

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  Giving, Grace, Trials

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• Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

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  Jesus, Soul, Religion

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

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  Father, Shy, Littles

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• it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

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  Suffering, Comfort, Dare

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• God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

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  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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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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  Differences, Victory, Liberty

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• Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

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  Joy, May, Knows

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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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  Real, Men, Joy

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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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  Faithful, Missionary, Trials

  J. Hudson Taylor (2015). “A Retrospect: The Story Behind My Zeal for Missions”, p.15, Aneko Press

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• While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Difficulty

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 62), 1982.

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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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  Lonely, Father, Flower

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• The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

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  Mean, Grace, Missionary

  J. Hudson Taylor (2015). “A Retrospect: The Story Behind My Zeal for Missions”, p.46, Aneko Press

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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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  Cost, Littles, Divine

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• Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

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  Christian, Kindness, Years

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Five: Refiner's Fire". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 285), 1985.

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

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  Christian, Self, Easy

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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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  Running, Waiting, Risk

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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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  Lying, Long, Doe

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• Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

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  Heart, Reality, Soul

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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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  Truth, Home, Dwelling

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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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  Christian, Two, Suffering

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• If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

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  Christian, Effort, Missionary

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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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  Teaching, Feelings, Each Day

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• If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

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  Christian, Prayer, Giving

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