Hudson Taylor Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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.

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

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