Hudson Taylor Missionary Quotes

#1. Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

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#2. What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Claude Monet

#3. 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!

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#4. I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#5. God the Father lives. He hears and answers our prayers in love. The Savior Jesus Christ, resurrected and glorious, lives and reaches out to us in mercy.

Henry B. Eyring

#6. Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

Iyanla Vanzant

#7. Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

Jules Verne

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

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#9. 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.

James Hudson Taylor

#10. The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

Laurence Tribe

#11. 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.

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

James Hudson Taylor

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

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#14. We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Elton John

#15. You know," he said by way of greeting, "the night I caught you with Layne, I called you a future felon. I didn't realize you'd make good on that prediction so quickly."
"That night you dragged Layne out of my driveway, I called you an asshole. Guess we were both right.

Brigid Kemmerer

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

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

James Hudson Taylor

#18. As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

Jessye Norman

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

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#20. Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Travis Bradberry

#21. The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

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#22. Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

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#23. The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#24. They obey older laws.

Alison Croggon

#25. Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political.

Junior Seau

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

James Hudson Taylor