
(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.
Source: The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
(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.
“Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 179.
La modération des grands hommes ne borne que leurs vices. La modération des faibles est médiocrité.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 168.
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Power Through Prayer.
“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
Undated
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
The Confession (c. 452?)
Context: Therefore be amazed, you great and small who fear God, and you men of God, eloquent speakers, listen and contemplate. Who was it summoned me, a fool, from the midst of those who appear wise and learned in the law and powerful in rhetoric and in all things? Me, truly wretched in this world, he inspired before others that I could be — if I would — such a one who, with fear and reverence, and faithfully, without complaint, would come to the people to whom the love of Christ brought me and gave me in my lifetime, if I should be worthy, to serve them truly and with humility.