Hudson Taylor Quotes

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

The cold, and even the hunger, the watchings and sleeplessness of nights of danger, and the feeling at times of utter isolation and helplessness, were well and wisely chosen, and tenderly and lovingly meted out. What circumstances could have rendered the Word of God more sweet, the presence of God more real, the help of God more precious?

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him ... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be ... is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine ... Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

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?

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.

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

Would it not be well if the people of God had always tell-tale faces, evincing the blessings and gladness of salvation so clearly that unconverted people might have to call conversion "becoming joyful" instead of "becoming serious"?

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far mar precious than exemption from the trial.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

God does not permit persecution to arise without sufficient reason...He was leading us by a way that we knew not; but it was none the less His way.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

Heart and flesh often fail. Let them fail! He faileth not.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference ... instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women ... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity ... if we want to see might 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 might things which thou knowest not."

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.