Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Hudson Taylor

The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.

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.

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.

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.

It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.

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.

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

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

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

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

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

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

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

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

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."

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

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.

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

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

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

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

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

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.

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

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

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.