Hudson Taylor
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.Collection: Experience
The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.
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.
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.
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
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.
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.Collection: Christian
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.Collection: Men
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.Collection: Christian
I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.Collection: Giving
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Prayer
The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.Collection: Real
Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?Collection: Christian
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.Collection: God
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.Collection: Inspiring
You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.Collection: Needs
Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.Collection: Christian
Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.Collection: Dream
All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.Collection: Grace
The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.Collection: Important
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty 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 mighty things which thou knowest not."Collection: Prayer
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.Collection: Wise
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.Collection: Christian
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.Collection: Men
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.Collection: Christian
Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.Collection: Christian
When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.Collection: Christian
All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.Collection: Christian
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.Collection: Mean
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.Collection: Missionary
Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.Collection: Jesus
Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.Collection: Sweet
Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.Collection: Jesus
So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.Collection: Giving
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.Collection: Father
it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.Collection: Suffering
God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow HimCollection: Faith
Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.Collection: Differences
Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.Collection: Joy
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.Collection: Christian
As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Mean
If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.Collection: Cost
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.Collection: Christian
An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.Collection: Christian
If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.Collection: Running
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Lying