Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
Interpretation
To achieve great things, one must approach challenges with humility and determination.
Hudson Taylor's quote emphasizes the notion that spiritual or personal progression often requires a humble approach. The metaphor of going forward on one's knees suggests a posture of submission, respect, and recognition of the effort needed in pursuit of one's goals, particularly in the context of faith and service to others.
In practice
In a church sermon about dedication to service, this quote highlights the need for humility in our approach to challenges.
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.
Those who criticize, they desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the power I was sent forth, for the world for the children. But have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now.
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