Hudson Taylor Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

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

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

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.