James Hudson Taylor Quotes

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

James Hudson Taylor
You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself.

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He that sanctifieth and those who are sanctified, find their full satisfaction in [Christ], and in Him alone.

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

James Hudson Taylor
Devotion to GOD is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

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If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

James Hudson Taylor
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.

James Hudson Taylor
For our Master's sake, may He make us willing to do or suffer all His will.

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We shall find that Separation to GOD is followed by Blessing from GOD; and that those who receive large blessing from Him, in turn render to Him acceptable Service; service in which GOD takes delight, and which He places in everlasting remembrance.

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I... know how much easier it is to lean on an arm of flesh than on the Lord; but I have learned too how much less safe it is.

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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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How sadly possible it is to delight in the rest of faith while forgetful to fight the good fight; to dwell upon the cleansing and the purity effected by faith, but to have little thought for the poor souls struggling in the mire of sin.

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We wish to see churches and Christian Chinese presided over by pastors and officers of their own countrymen, worshipping the true God in the land of their fathers, in the costume of their fathers, in their own tongue wherein they were born, and in edifices of a thoroughly Chinese style of architecture.

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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. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!

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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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We have so often been disappointed that we must not be too sure of anything, save of God's help and presence which He will never withhold.

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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.

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I besought Him to give me some work for Him, as an outlet for love and gratitude; some self-denying service, no matter what it might be, however trying or however trivial

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

James Hudson Taylor
I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus.

James Hudson Taylor
I believe we are all in danger of accumulating – it may be from thoughtlessness, or from pressure of occupation – things which would be useful to others, while not needed by ourselves, and the retention of which entails loss of blessing.

James Hudson Taylor
Self-denial surely means somethings far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!

James Hudson Taylor
I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me.

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

James Hudson Taylor
We are taking our four little children, and I never need anyone to remind me that they need their breakfast... dinner... supper. And I cannot imagine that our heavenly Father is less able or less willing to remember His children's needs, when He sends them forth to the end of the earth about His business.

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Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it amont them.

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We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.

James Hudson Taylor
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

James Hudson Taylor
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.

James Hudson Taylor
After proving God's faithfulness for many years, I can testify that times of want have ever been times of spiritual blessing, or have led to them.

James Hudson Taylor