“Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference…instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you—the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that – if it is only arranging a window blind!”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that His resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“God’s work is not man working for God; it is God’s own work, though often wrought through man’s hands.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)

“It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.”

Hudson Taylor (Missionary, 1832 – 1905)