Hudson Taylor Quotes

British Protestant missionary in China

James Hudson Taylor (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905), Christian missionary to China in the Methodist tradition, and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International in 1964). He served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country resulting in 18,000 Chinese converts to Christianity. He was famous for his commitment to cultural sensitivity, wearing Chinese dress even though this was rare among missionaries of that time.

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Alternative Names: J. Hudson Taylor • James Hudson Taylor • J. H. Taylor

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God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.

For our Master’s sake, may He make us willing to do or suffer all His will.

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

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord at all.

China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.

But God makes no mistakes; according to their service He divides the help, and those who are called to the holiest service are those who can have least assistance.

At home you can never know what it is to be alone – absolutely alone, amidst thousands, as you can in a Chinese city, without one friend, one companion, everyone looking on you with curiosity, with contempt, with suspicion or with dislike. Thus to learn what it is to be despised and rejected of men – of those you wish to benefit, your motives not understood . . . and then to have the love of Jesus applied to your heart by the Holy Spirit . . . this is worth coming for.

And he who in all things recognises himself as the servant of GOD may count on a sufficiency from GOD for all manner of need, and look with confident expectation to GOD to really prosper him in whatever he does.

An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.

Brighton, 25 June 1965: “All at once came the thought – If you are simply obeying the LORD, all the responsibility will rest on Him, not on you! What a relief!! Well, I cried to God – You shall be responsible for them, and for me too!”

After proving God’s faithfulness for many years, I can testify that times of want have ever been times of spiritual blessing, or have led to them.

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them