Hudson Taylor

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

— Hudson Taylor

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

— Hudson Taylor

“There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

— Hudson Taylor

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

— Hudson Taylor

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

— Hudson Taylor

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

— Hudson Taylor

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

— Hudson Taylor

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

— Hudson Taylor

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between…

— Hudson Taylor

Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him... A man is abiding just as…

— Hudson Taylor

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do,…

— Hudson Taylor

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain.…

— Hudson Taylor

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God…

— Hudson Taylor

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time…

— Hudson Taylor

The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on…

— Hudson Taylor

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am…

— Hudson Taylor

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but…

— Hudson Taylor

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men…

— Hudson Taylor

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a…

— Hudson Taylor

If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not…

— Hudson Taylor

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do,…

— Hudson Taylor

Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There…

— Hudson Taylor

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,…

— Hudson Taylor

“Satan will always find you something to do when you ought to be occupied about that [regular, prayerful Bible study], if it…

— Hudson Taylor