James Hudson Taylor quotes - page 4

On September 13, 1888, Jonathan Goforth, famed Canadian pioneer Presbyterian missionary to China, made his first exploration tour of North Honan. Honan was considered one of the most anti-foreign and dangerous parts of China. Yet God had called Goforth to it. Hudson Taylor wrote him, "We have been trying, unsuccessfully, for ten years, to get into Honan. We've been beaten, stoned, and turned back time and again. Brother, if you would enter that province, you must go forward on your knees! (James Hudson Taylor)
How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone. View quote
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We wish to see churches and Christian Chinese presided over by pastors and officers of their own countrymen, worshipping the true God in the land of their fathers, in the costume of their fathers, in their own tongue wherein they were born, and in edifices of a thoroughly Chinese style of architecture. View quote
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It was no vain or unintelligent act when, knowing the land, its people and climate, I laid my dear wife and the darling children with myself on the altar for this service. View quote
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Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. We know how the Lord Jesus became fruitful – not by bearing His Cross merely, but by dying on it. Do we know much of fellowship with Him in this? View quote
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If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means. View quote
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There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord. View quote
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How sadly possible it is to delight in the rest of faith while forgetful to fight the good fight; to dwell upon the cleansing and the purity effected by faith, but to have little thought for the poor souls struggling in the mire of sin. View quote
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If we could offer to the ungodly a worldly plan which would ensure their prospering in all that they undertake, how eagerly they would embrace it! And yet when GOD Himself reveals an effectual plan to His people how few avail themselves of it!. View quote
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Self-denial surely means somethings far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences! View quote
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We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails. (James Hudson Taylor)
Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all. View quote
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I... know how much easier it is to lean on an arm of flesh than on the Lord; but I have learned too how much less safe it is. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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