Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylorwas a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission. Taylor spent 51 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who began 125 schools and directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 500 local helpers in all eighteen provinces...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth21 May 1832
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Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
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If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.
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Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.
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There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.
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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 is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?
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I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.
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A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
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You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.
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One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
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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.
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Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.
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When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
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While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.