James Hudson Taylor - God Quotes

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If we could offer to the ungodly a worldly plan which would ensure their prospering in all that they undertake, how eagerly they would embrace it! And yet when GOD Himself reveals an effectual plan to His people how few avail themselves of it!.

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Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

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Devotion to GOD is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

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I said, 'You are now placed in a position to help the Chinese as you have never been before. They see that your being a foreigner is now no protection, but increases your danger. Let them see that you are rejoicing in God... that you do not need any other protection and that you do not go away, although you might; that you put your trust in God, and are prepared either to suffer or be delivered as He sees best, will learn that there is something in the Gospel worth risking life for.' What was the result? In almost every place where there were native Christians they grew (in spiritual maturity) as never before.

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And he who in all things recognises himself as the servant of GOD may count on a sufficiency from GOD for all manner of need, and look with confident expectation to GOD to really prosper him in whatever he does.

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It needs the presence of special difficulties to manifest to all the workings of God's mighty power, and for such difficulties we may and should be grateful, and not cast down.

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We wish to see churches and Christian Chinese presided over by pastors and officers of their own countrymen, worshipping the true God in the land of their fathers, in the costume of their fathers, in their own tongue wherein they were born, and in edifices of a thoroughly Chinese style of architecture.

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You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself.

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Nearness to GOD calls for tenderness of conscience, thoughtfulness in service, and implicit obedience.

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If God try our faith it is to show His faithfulness, and we shall lose the blessing by appeals etc.

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God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

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I could not think that GOD was poor, that He was short of resources, or unwilling to supply any want of whatever work was really His. It seemed to me that if there were lack of funds to carry on work, then to that degree, in that special development, or at that time, it could not be the work of GOD.

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Many there are who fail to see that there can be but one lord, and that those who do not make GOD Lord of all do not make Him Lord at all.

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All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.

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The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in GOD; and our faith in GOD ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes.

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Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

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If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means.

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We have so often been disappointed that we must not be too sure of anything, save of God's help and presence which He will never withhold.

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With GOD all things are possible, and no conviction ever takes place save by the almighty power of the HOLY GHOST. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know GOD.

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I so want you to realise this principle of working with God and asking Him for everything. If the work is at the command of God, then we can go to Him in full confidence for workers; and when God gives the workers, we can go to Him for means to supply their needs.

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But God makes no mistakes; according to their service He divides the help, and those who are called to the holiest service are those who can have least assistance.

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How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.

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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. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!

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My work is a very peculiar [unique] one; in many respects it has, and can have no precedent. It may be called an experiment; to a certain extent it is so. And by God's help it shall be, as it is being, faithfully made.

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After proving God's faithfulness for many years, I can testify that times of want have ever been times of spiritual blessing, or have led to them.

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