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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You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
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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.
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God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
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But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
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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.
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Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
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It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.
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We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
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The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.
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China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.
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While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.
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Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not.
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All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
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God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.