Hudson Taylor Quotes

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month's pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.