Hudson Taylor Quotes - Page 4

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

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.

It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

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.

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

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

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?

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

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?

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 more precious than exemption from the trial.

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

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

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.

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

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.