As quoted in The Baptist Herald and Friend of Africa (October 1842) and "The Missionary Herald" in The Baptist Magazine Vol. 35 (January 1843), p. 41
The Chocolate Soldier ( text at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22331)
“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”
“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”
“It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.”
Book 7 , Ch. 10.
The Histories
§ III
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)
“If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.
“God, grant us men to see in a small thing principles which are common things both small and great.”
Deus, dona hominibus videre in parvo communes notitias rerum parvarum atque magnarum.
Deus, dona hominibus videre in parvo communes notitias rerum parvarum atque magnarum.
http://books.google.com/books?id=lM5PQRHMNFwC&q=%22Deus+dona+hominibus+videre+in+parvo+communes+notitias+rerum+parvarum+atque+magnarum%22&pg=PR19#v=onepage
XI, 23
Confessions (c. 397)
“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”
Source: Like the Flowing River
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 29).
Variant: All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.
