Hudson Taylor Quotes

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4).

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.