“I... know how much easier it is to lean on an arm of flesh than on the Lord; but I have learned too how much less safe it is.”

—  James Hudson Taylor

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).

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