Hudson Taylor Christian Quotations

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

Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

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

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

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

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

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

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.

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.

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.

Unless there is the element of extreme risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christ's - 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?

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.