Top 90 James Hudson Taylor Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.”

— James Hudson Taylor

52. “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.”

— James Hudson Taylor

53. “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!”

— James Hudson Taylor

54. “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.”

— James Hudson Taylor

55. “Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.”

— James Hudson Taylor

56. “Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.”

— James Hudson Taylor

57. “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?”

— James Hudson Taylor

58. “Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.”

— James Hudson Taylor

59. “It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him.”

— James Hudson Taylor

60. “Union with Christ, and abiding in Christ, what do they not secure? Peace, perfect peace; rest, constant rest; answers to all our prayers; victory over all our foes; pure, holy living; ever-increasing fruitfulness. All, all of these are the glad outcome of abiding in Christ.”

— James Hudson Taylor

61. “Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.”

— James Hudson Taylor

62. “An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.”

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

64. “One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.”

— James Hudson Taylor

65. “The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things – things greater even than we can conceive.”

— James Hudson Taylor

66. “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!”

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

68. “The consecration of all to our Master, far from lessening our power to impart, increases both our power and our joy in ministration. The five loaves and two fishes of the disciples, first given up to and blessed by the Lord, were abundant supply for the needy multitudes, and grew, in the act of distribution, into a store of which twelve hampers full of fragments remained when all were fully satisfied.”

— James Hudson Taylor

69. “The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.”

— James Hudson Taylor

70. “If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.”

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

74. “I am more than ever convinced that if we were to take the directions of our Master and the assurances He gave to His first disciples more fully as our guide, we should find them to be just as suited to our times as to those in which they were originally given.”

— James Hudson Taylor

75. “I believe we are all in danger of accumulating – it may be from thoughtlessness, or from pressure of occupation – things which would be useful to others, while not needed by ourselves, and the retention of which entails loss of blessing.”

— James Hudson Taylor

76. “There is no change in His love; He is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. To us He promises, “I will never leave thee, never fail thee, nor forsake thee”; and His earnest exhortation and command is, “Abide in Me, and I in you.”

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

78. “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 mar precious than exemption from the trial.”

— James Hudson Taylor

79. “May we all, while living down here, in the world, but not of it, find our home in the heavenly places to which we have been raised, and in which we are seated together with Christ. Sent into the world to witness for our Master, may we ever be strangers there, ready to confess Him the true object of our soul’s devotion.”

— James Hudson Taylor

80. “Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; So shall the King desire thy beauty: For He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him.”

— James Hudson Taylor

81. “O Lord, how happy should we be If we would cast our care on Thee, If we from self would rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best!”

— James Hudson Taylor

82. “Wonderful thought! that God should desire fellowship with us; and that He whose love once made Him the Man of Sorrows may now be made the Man of Joys by the loving devotion of human hearts.”

— James Hudson Taylor

83. “Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.”

— James Hudson Taylor

84. “There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.”

— James Hudson Taylor

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

— James Hudson Taylor

86. “Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.”

— James Hudson Taylor

87. “In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.”

— James Hudson Taylor

88. “Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.”

— James Hudson Taylor

89. “There was no doubt that if faith did not fail, God would not fail; but, then, what if one’s faith should prove insufficient? I had not at that time learned that even “if we believe not, He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Himself”; and it was consequently a very serious question to my mind, not whether He was faithful, but whether I had strong enough faith to warrant my embarking in the enterprise set before me.”

— James Hudson Taylor

90. “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.”

— James Hudson Taylor

91. “It was to me a very grave matter, however, to contemplate going out to China, far away from all human aid, there to depend upon the living God alone for protection, supplies, and help of every kind.”

— James Hudson Taylor

92. “I thought to myself, “When I get out to China, I shall have no claim on any one for anything; my only claim will be on God.”

— James Hudson Taylor

93. “Nothing humbles the soul like sacred and intimate communion with the LORD; yet there is a sweet joy in feeling that He knows all, and, notwithstanding, loves us still.”

— James Hudson Taylor

94. “God, even my God, was a living, bright Reality; and all I had to do was joyful service.”

— James Hudson Taylor

95. “I found myself possessed of only a single coin – one half-crown piece. Still I had hitherto had no lack, and I continued in prayer.”

— James Hudson Taylor

96. “In this way I had more than two-thirds of my income available for other purposes; and my experience was that the less I spent on myself and the more I gave away, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become. Unspeakable joy all the day long, and every day, was my happy experience. God, even my God, was a living, bright Reality; and all I had to do was joyful service.”

— James Hudson Taylor