89 Quotes by James Hudson Taylor

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.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

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

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

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.

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.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

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.