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
Hudson Taylor quotes about
requirements missionary three
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
prayer godly firsts
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
prayer moving 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.
prayer thinking praying
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
prayer disappointment grace
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not."
dream failing bigs
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
important never-forget forget
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.
home dwelling evil
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
running waiting risk
If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior,
spiritual prayer blessing
As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.
home sight special
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
real men joy
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.
prayer men praying
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.
faithful strive
But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.