Christianity Hudson Taylor Quotes

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"? ~ Hudson Taylor

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all ~ Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness. ~ James Hudson Taylor

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him. ~ James Hudson Taylor

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

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him. ~ James Hudson Taylor

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

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

Nearly twenty years before, Hudson Taylor had written in an editorial: "All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them." As he looked at himself, Hudson Taylor saw nothing but weakness; but as generations of Christians have studied Taylor's life, they have become acquainted with a man who dared to believe the Word of God and, by faith, carried the gospel to inland China - and saw God work wonders! "Want of trust is at the root of almost all our sins and all our weaknesses," he wrote in that same editorial, "and how shall we escape it but by looking to Him and observing His faithfulness. The man who holds God's faithfulness will not be foolhardy or reckless, but he will be ready for every emergency. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls. ~ Hudson Taylor

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

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

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? ~ Hudson Taylor

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. ~ James Hudson Taylor

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

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

Nay, this village isn't yer sanctuary from the cruel world. It's God Almighty. He's the only one who can protect ye. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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." ~ Hudson Taylor

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

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action. ~ Hudson Taylor

Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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

Hudson Taylor once observed, "All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them."3 ~ Crossway

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies
whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart. ~ James Hudson Taylor

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

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour? ~ James Hudson Taylor

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? ~ Hudson Taylor

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. ~ Hudson Taylor

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain. ~ James Hudson Taylor

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us. ~ James Hudson Taylor

HUDSON TAYLOR – THE PROGRESSION OF A MISSIONARY CALL:

As child, at age 5: When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.

As a young man:I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for China.

Late in life, as a veteran missionary:
If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China. ~ James Hudson Taylor

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

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

Love is as hard to hide as hate. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor