“A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.”

—  James Hudson Taylor

Source:(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 154).

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