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.
HUDSON TAYLORDo 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.
More Hudson Taylor Quotes
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God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
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If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
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You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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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.
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If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.
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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.
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Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
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The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
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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.
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God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
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All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
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Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference…instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.
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Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
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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.
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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.
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God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
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God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
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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!
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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?
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Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
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It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
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Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
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Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.
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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.
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Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.
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