Top 100 Quotes About Hudson Taylor
#1. Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ... The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.
Francis Schaeffer
#2. 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
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#3. 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
#6. Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone
Hudson Taylor
#7. 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.
James Hudson Taylor
#8. With God all things are possible, and no conversion ever takes place save by the almighty power of the Holy Ghost. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know God.
Hudson Taylor
#9. The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
Hudson Taylor
#10. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#11. So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has the right to do as He pleases with His own, and He may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you
Hudson Taylor
#12. 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
#13. To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture
a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.
James Hudson Taylor
#14. The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.
Hudson Taylor
#15. Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
Hudson Taylor
#16. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#17. I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter ... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.
Rod Taylor
#18. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
Hudson Taylor
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.
Hudson Taylor
#23. God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.
James Hudson Taylor
#24. 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
#25. I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He's given me.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#26. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#27. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#28. Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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#29. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#30. There's no rule that says attraction warrents trust. If that were the case, then more wedded couple would be happier.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#31. God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
Hudson Taylor
#32. All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
Hudson Taylor
#33. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#34. 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
#35. Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.
Hudson Taylor
#36. 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 be troubled about, or to make trouble about.
James Hudson Taylor
#37. If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
Hudson Taylor
#38. When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
James Hudson Taylor
#39. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
James Hudson Taylor
#40. 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
#41. There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
Hudson Taylor
#42. Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
Hudson Taylor
#43. She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#44. Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#45. 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
#46. 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!
Hudson Taylor
#47. One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
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#48. Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
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#49. The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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#50. Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
Hudson Taylor
#51. 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
#52. God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
Hudson Taylor
#53. 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
#54. You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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#55. An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
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#56. Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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#57. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#59. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#60. 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.
James Hudson Taylor
#61. 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!
Hudson Taylor
#62. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#63. God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
Hudson Taylor
#64. 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
#65. There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.
James Hudson Taylor
#67. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#68. I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#69. While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
Hudson Taylor
#70. It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
James Hudson Taylor
#71. Unless there is the element of extreme risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith
Hudson Taylor
#72. Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#73. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#74. Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
Hudson Taylor
#75. Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all
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#76. [God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
James Hudson Taylor
#77. 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
#78. The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
James Hudson Taylor
#79. A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
Hudson Taylor
#80. O Lord, how happy should we be If we would cast our care on Thee, If we from self would rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best!
James Hudson Taylor
#81. Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
Hudson Taylor
#82. 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
#84. If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
Hudson Taylor
#85. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#86. 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
#87. There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.
Hudson Taylor
#88. 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
#89. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#90. There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
Hudson Taylor
#91. Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.
Hudson Taylor
#92. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#93. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#94. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#96. 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.
Hudson Taylor
#97. In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
James Hudson Taylor
#98. Truly there is a Living God, and He is the hearer and answerer of prayer.
Hudson Taylor
#99. 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.
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#100. I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.
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