James Hudson Taylor Quotes

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At home you can never know what it is to be alone – absolutely alone, amidst thousands, as you can in a Chinese city, without one friend, one companion, everyone looking on you with curiosity, with contempt, with suspicion or with dislike. Thus to learn what it is to be despised and rejected of men – of those you wish to benefit, your motives not understood... and then to have the love of Jesus applied to your heart by the Holy Spirit... this is worth coming for.

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I said, 'You are now placed in a position to help the Chinese as you have never been before. They see that your being a foreigner is now no protection, but increases your danger. Let them see that you are rejoicing in God... that you do not need any other protection and that you do not go away, although you might; that you put your trust in God, and are prepared either to suffer or be delivered as He sees best, will learn that there is something in the Gospel worth risking life for.' What was the result? In almost every place where there were native Christians they grew (in spiritual maturity) as never before.

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

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Many there are who fail to see that there can be but one lord, and that those who do not make GOD Lord of all do not make Him Lord at all.

James Hudson Taylor
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.

James Hudson Taylor
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

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

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Let there be no reservation; give yourselves up fully and wholly to Him whose you are and whom you wish to serve in this work; and then there can be no disappointment.

James Hudson Taylor
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. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!

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

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

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

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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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I am in great straits for funds. I am happy about it. The Lord may take away all our troublesome people through it and give us true-hearted ones instead.

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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.

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True devotion will rather ask to be allowed to give, and will count as loss all which may not be given up for the Lord's sake.

James Hudson Taylor
I so want you to realise this principle of working with God and asking Him for everything. If the work is at the command of God, then we can go to Him in full confidence for workers; and when God gives the workers, we can go to Him for means to supply their needs.

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We believe that the time has come for doing more fully what He has commanded us; and by His grace we intend to do it. Not to try, for we see no Scriptural authority for trying. Try is a word constantly in the mouth of unbelievers,... far too often taken up by believers. In our experience, 'to try' has usually meant 'to fail'. (The Lord's) command is not 'Do your best,' but 'DO IT'.

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The missionaries should be men of apostolic zeal, patience, endurance, willing to be all things to all men. May the Lord raise up suitable instruments, and fit me for this work.

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With GOD all things are possible, and no conviction ever takes place save by the almighty power of the HOLY GHOST. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know GOD.

James Hudson Taylor
The highest service demands the greatest sacrifice, but it secures the fullest blessing and the greatest fruitfulness.

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

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There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.

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But God makes no mistakes; according to their service He divides the help, and those who are called to the holiest service are those who can have least assistance.

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How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.

James Hudson Taylor