James Hudson Taylor Quotes

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Brighton, 25 June 1965: All at once came the thought – If you are simply obeying the LORD, all the responsibility will rest on Him, not on you! What a relief!! Well, I cried to God – You shall be responsible for them, and for me too!

James Hudson Taylor
The Apostolic plan was not to raise ways and means, but to go and do the work.

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

James Hudson Taylor
The vine... is not the root merely, but all - root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: He is soil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand times more than we ever dreamed, wished for, or needed.

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

James Hudson Taylor
I could not think that GOD was poor, that He was short of resources, or unwilling to supply any want of whatever work was really His. It seemed to me that if there were lack of funds to carry on work, then to that degree, in that special development, or at that time, it could not be the work of GOD.

James Hudson Taylor
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
To know and to do His will – this is our safety; this is our rest.

James Hudson Taylor
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.

James Hudson Taylor
What I have to watch against is impatience at waiting His time.

James Hudson Taylor
Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.

James Hudson Taylor
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.

James Hudson Taylor
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.

James Hudson Taylor
The more we rest on this fact, – that we do not know the way we are going, but that we have a GUIDE who does know; that we do not know how to accomplish our service, but that He never leaves us to devise our own service; – the more restful does our life become.

James Hudson Taylor
Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord at all.

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

James Hudson Taylor
If we could offer to the ungodly a worldly plan which would ensure their prospering in all that they undertake, how eagerly they would embrace it! And yet when GOD Himself reveals an effectual plan to His people how few avail themselves of it!.

James Hudson Taylor
The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in GOD; and our faith in GOD ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes.

James Hudson Taylor
Where the need is greatest let us be found gladly obeying the MASTER'S command. For it is in the harvest-field, it is among the reapers, that we shall find Him.

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

James Hudson Taylor
If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means.

James Hudson Taylor
It was no vain or unintelligent act when, knowing the land, its people and climate, I laid my dear wife and the darling children with myself on the altar for this service.

James Hudson Taylor
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
Some are jealous of being successors of the Apostles. I would rather be a successor of the Samaritan woman, who, while the Apostles went for meat and forgot souls, forgot her water pot in her zeal to spread the good tidings.

James Hudson Taylor