(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 41).
“There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 261
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