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.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly β though not exclusively β who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
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