Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
Interpretation
To achieve great things, one must approach challenges with humility and determination.
Hudson Taylor's quote emphasizes the notion that spiritual or personal progression often requires a humble approach. The metaphor of going forward on one's knees suggests a posture of submission, respect, and recognition of the effort needed in pursuit of one's goals, particularly in the context of faith and service to others.
In practice
In a church sermon about dedication to service, this quote highlights the need for humility in our approach to challenges.
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!
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?
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
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