Hudson Taylor Mission Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

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