Quotes from Hudson Taylor

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.