James Hudson Taylor: Trending quotes (page 5)

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

James Hudson Taylor

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 131).

Happiness

“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.”

James Hudson Taylor

(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 71).

Faith , Soul , Fight , Forgetting

“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.”

James Hudson Taylor

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 363).

Love , Men , Home , Motivation

“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

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 41).

God , People

“Self-denial surely means somethings far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!”

James Hudson Taylor

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).

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

James Hudson Taylor

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 175).

“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.”

James Hudson Taylor

(Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 37).

God , Way

“Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all”

James Hudson Taylor

(1898) Source: Separation and Service, Part II http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Separation_and_Service.

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