Hudson Taylor Quotes

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

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.

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

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

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 more precious than exemption from the trial.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

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

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.

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.

Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you—the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.

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.

To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come.

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

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.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

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

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.

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

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

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

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

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

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

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

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

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

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.

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.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

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.

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.

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.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

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