Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret Quotes

“Lord Jesus, make Thyself to me A living, bright reality; More present to faith’s vision keen Than any outward object seen; More dear, more intimately nigh Than e’en the sweetest earthly tie.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“It was in blessed reality “Christ liveth in me.” And how great the difference! - instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Now I am happy in my Saviour’s love. I can thank Him for all, even the most painful experiences of the past, and trust Him without fear for all that is to come.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“it was not easy to keep first things first and make time for prayer. Yet without this there can not but be failure and unrest.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“How few of the Lord’s people have practically recognized the truth that Christ is either Lord of all or He is not Lord at all!”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“To him, the secret of overcoming lay in daily, hourly fellowship with God; and this, he found, could only be maintained by secret prayer and feeding upon the Word through which He reveals Himself to the waiting soul.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“But Hudson Taylor, young though he was, had learned to know God in a very real way. He had seen Him, as he wrote, quell the raging of a storm at sea, in answer to definite prayer, alter the direction of the wind, and give rain in a time of drought. He had seen Him, in answer to prayer, stay the hand of would-be murderers and quell the violence of enraged men. He had seen Him rebuke sickness in answer to prayer, and raise up the dying, when all hope of recovery seemed gone. For more than eight years he had proved His faithfulness in supplying the needs of his family and work in answer to prayer, unforeseen as many of those needs had been. How could he but encourage others to put their trust in the love that can not forget, the faithfulness that can not fail?”
― Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“It is pretty cold weather [Dec. 4] to be living in a house without any ceilings and with very few walls and windows. There is a deficiency in the wall of my own bedroom six feet by nine, closed in with a sheet, so that ventilation is decidedly free. But we heed these things very little. Around us are poor, dark heathen—large cities without any missionary, populous towns without any missionary, villages without number, all without the means of grace. I do not envy the state of mind that would forget these, or leave them to perish, for fear of a little discomfort. May God make us faithful to Him and to our work.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Depend upon it, God’s work, done in God’s way, will never lack God’s supplies.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“But what he said was true, for the compensations were so real and lasting that he came to see that giving up is inevitably receiving, when one is dealing heart to heart with God. It was so, very manifestly, this winter at Drainside. Not outwardly only but inwardly also he had accepted the will of God, giving up what seemed his best and highest, the love that had become part of his very life, that he might be unhindered in following Christ. The sacrifice was great, but the reward far greater. Unspeakable joy [he tells us] all day long and every day, was my happy experience. God, even my God, was a living bright reality, and all I had to do was joyful service.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“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.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“If we can judge God’s Word, instead of being judged by it, if we can give God as much or as little as we like, then we are lords and He the indebted one, to be grateful for our dole and obliged by our compliance with His wishes. If on the other hand He is Lord, let us treat Him as such. “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“If you are ever drinking at the Fountain [he wrote] with what will your life be running over? - Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Take time. Give God time to reveal Himself to you. Give yourself time to be silent and quiet be fore Him, waiting to receive, through the Spirit, the assurance of His presence with you, His power working in you. Take time to read His Word as in His presence, that from it you may know what He asks of you and what He promises you. Let the Word create around you, create within you a holy atmosphere, a holy heavenly light, in which your soul will be refreshed and strengthened for the work of daily life.2 It was just because he did this that Hudson Taylor’s life was full of joy and power, by the grace of God. When over seventy years of age he paused, Bible in hand, as he crossed the sitting-room in Lausanne, and said to one of his children: “I have just finished reading the Bible through, today, for the fortieth time in forty years.” And he not only read it, he lived it.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“My dear Macartney,” he replied”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“My need now is great and urgent”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Eight hundred pounds for “fresh provinces”! Hardly could the convalescent believe he read aright. The very secrets of his heart seemed to look back at him from that sheet of foreign notepaper. Even before the prayer recorded in his Bible”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Though things are sadly discouraging”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“There was a simplicity”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“It is not “Whosoever has drunk,” but “Whosoever drinketh.” It is not of one isolated draught He speaks”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“I need not remind you of the liberal help which the Lord has sent us direct”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“I used to try to keep my own heart right”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Shall never thirst” - would it”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Not a striving to have faith … but a looking off to the Faithful One”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Do you know”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“God’s work”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“The New Testament revision was a task that seemed to grow rather than diminish”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Were not they themselves looking to the Lord only for support”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Prayer was the atmosphere of William Burns’s life and the Word of God was his daily food. He was mighty in the Scriptures [his biographer records] and his greatest power in preaching was the way in which he used “the sword of the Spirit” upon men’s consciences and hearts … Sometimes one might have thought”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret