James Hudson Taylor on Life
Browse 10 quotations attributed to James Hudson Taylor, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to James Hudson Taylor, entry #237283: "I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus."
Attributed to James Hudson Taylor, entry #136008: "I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me."
10 Quotes by James Hudson Taylor on Life
"I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus."
"I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me."
"Nearness to GOD calls for tenderness of conscience, thoughtfulness in service, and implicit obedience."
"I almost wish I had a hundred bodies; they should all be devoted to my Savior in the missionary cause."
"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."
"An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power."
"You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself."
"The more we rest on this fact, – that we do not know the way we are going, but that we have a GUIDE who does know; that we do not know how to accomplish our service, but that He never leaves us to devise our own service; – the more restful does our life become."
"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."
"I said, ‘You are now placed in a position to help the Chinese as you have never been before. They see that your being a foreigner is now no protection, but increases your danger. Let them see that you are rejoicing in God . . . that you do not need any other protection and that you do not go away, although you might; that you put your trust in God, and are prepared either to suffer or be delivered as He sees best, will learn that there is something in the Gospel worth risking life for.’ What was the result? In almost every place where there were native Christians they grew as never before."