Hudson Taylor Quotes

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

If you are not living unto Christ, you are not dying unto Him, either.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him.

If Jesus is not enough to motivate you to godly living, you don't know Jesus.

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?