Hudson Taylor
Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Christian
Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.Collection: Teaching
If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.Collection: Christian
A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.Collection: Christian
The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.Collection: Monday
The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.Collection: Blessing
We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?Collection: People
I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.Collection: Thinking
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.Collection: Gold
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.Collection: Lying
Learn to move man, through God, by prayer aloneCollection: Prayer
But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.Collection: Faithful
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.Collection: Men
It is not lost time to wait upon God!Collection: Waiting
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.Collection: Real
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.Collection: Prayer
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.Collection: Inspiration
Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.Collection: Christian
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at allCollection: Christian
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.Collection: Jesus
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!Collection: Christian
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.Collection: Faith
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come.Collection: Jesus
Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.Collection: Eye
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.Collection: Prayer
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.Collection: Christian
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.Collection: Prayer
I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.Collection: Children
God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.Collection: Men
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.Collection: Real
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.Collection: Prayer
In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Faithful
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.Collection: Real
Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.Collection: Real
If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?Collection: Should Have
Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.Collection: Christian
Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.Collection: Home
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?Collection: Home
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 more precious than exemption from the trial.Collection: Spiritual
Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.Collection: Christian
In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.Collection: Failing
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.Collection: Christian
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.Collection: Real
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Christian
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.Collection: Jesus
There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.Collection: Successful