Hudson Taylor famous quotes

03-25-2025

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.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Prayer #Moving #Men
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Wisdom #Christian Inspirational #Religion
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.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Giving #Grace #Matter
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Prayer #Thinking #Praying
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

#Disappointment #Prayer #Challenges
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.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Prayer #Godly #Firsts
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.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Lying #Heart #Doe
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Jesus #Soul #Religion
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Inspiring #Missionary #Done
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Men #Giants #Weak
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Important #Never Forget #Forget
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.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Wise #Purpose #Done
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

#Home #Sight #Special
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

#Faith #Limits
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

#Prayer #Men #Praying
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Brother #Knees #Christianity
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

#Mean #Grace #Missionary
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
-- Hudson Taylor

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

#Gold #Want #Riches
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
-- Hudson Taylor

#Inspiration #Greatness #Complaining
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?
-- Hudson Taylor

#Pounds #Too Much #Christ
it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.
-- Hudson Taylor

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

#Christian #Religious #Looks
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

#Home #Dwelling #People
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

#Spiritual #Prayer #Blessing

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