F. Howard Taylor > 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 father sought the Truth,and died without finding it. Oh why did you not come sooner?" - Mr. Ni”
― Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor

“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

“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

“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

“As iron is tempered to steel, his heart must be stronger and more patient than others, through having loved and suffered more. He who was to en courage thousands in a life of childlike trust, must himself learn yet deeper lessons of a Father’s loving care. So difficulties were permitted to gather about him, especially at first when impressions are deep and lasting, difficulties attended by many a deliverance which made them a lifelong blessing.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Meanwhile, let us beware alike of the haste of the impatient, impetuous flesh, and of its disappointment and weariness.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“I NEVER MADE a sacrifice,” said Hudson Taylor in later years, looking back over a life in which that element was certainly not lacking. 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.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Sorrows of another kind were permitted to test faith and endurance as the summer wore on, but all the while souls were being saved and the church built up which numbers over fifteen hundred members today.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“A little while: ‘twill soon be past!
Why should we shun the promised cross?
Oh, let us in His footsteps haste,
Counting for Him all else but loss:
Then, how will recompense His smile
The sufferings of this little while!”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Their utter wretchedness and misery and my in ability to help them or even point them to Jesus powerfully affected me.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“There was the urgency of love to the Lord Jesus Christ that made them glory in their privilege of knowing Him in the fellowship of His sufferings in a new and deeper way, and there was in them the urgency of His constraining love for the souls of the perishing by whom they were surrounded.”
― F. 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 before 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.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“I have long sought the Truth, but without finding it. I have travelled far and near, but have never searched it out. In Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, I have found no rest. But I do find rest in what we have heard tonight. Henceforth, I am a believer in Jesus.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“The sufferings of those around him, and the fact that he could do little or nothing to help, would have been overwhelming, but for the strengthening of Him who suffers most.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“The One Great Circumstance of Life, and of all lesser, external circumstances as necessarily the kindest, wisest, best, because either ordered or permitted by Him.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

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

“From two to four A. M. was the time he usually gave to prayer; the time when he could be most sure of being undisturbed to wait upon God. That flicker of candlelight has meant more to them than all they have read or heard on secret prayer; it meant reality, not preaching but practice.”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“Saved, not condemned; a way to find everlasting life; a God who loved the world; a serpent, no a “Son of man” lifted up - what could it all be about?”
― Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret

“He who was to encourage thousands in a life of childlike trust, must himself learn yet deeper lessons of a Father's loving care.”
― F. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret