J. Hudson Taylor Quotes

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

Do 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

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

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

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

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

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.

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

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

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

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

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

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

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

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

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

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

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

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

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

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.

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

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

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

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

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

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