Amber Pruitt > Amber's Quotes

“Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.”
― Hudson Taylor

“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
― Hudson Taylor

“All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.”
― J. Hudson Taylor

“God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.”
― Hudson Taylor

“There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”
― Hudson Taylor

“I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.”
― Hudson Taylor

“It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.”
― Hudson Taylor

“If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?”
― Hudson Taylor

“It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.”
― Hudson Taylor

“it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.”
― Hudson Taylor

“God's work done in God's way will never lack God's provision.”
― Hudson Taylor

“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.”
― Hudson Taylor

“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”
― J. Hudson Taylor

“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.”
― Hudson Taylor

“[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.”
― Hudson Taylor

“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.”
― Hudson Taylor

“Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.”
― J. Hudson Taylor

“To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.”
― Hudson Taylor

“I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize the Lord is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how. That is rather for Him to consider than for me; for in the easiest positions He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient.”
― J. Hudson Taylor

“HUDSON TAYLOR – THE PROGRESSION OF A MISSIONARY CALL:

As child, at age 5: When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.

As a young man:I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for China.

Late in life, as a veteran missionary:
If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.”
― Hudson Taylor

“Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.”
― Hudson Taylor

“In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.”
― J. Hudson Taylor

“Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.”
― James Hudson Taylor

“The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.”
― James Hudson Taylor, Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

“I am more than ever convinced that if we were to take the directions of our Master and the assurances He gave to His first disciples more fully as our guide, we should find them to be just as suited to our times as to those in which they were originally given.”
― James Hudson Taylor, The Autobiography of Hudson Taylor: Missionary to China

“The consecration of all to our Master, far from lessening our power to impart, increases both our power and our joy in ministration. The five loaves and two fishes of the disciples, first given up to and blessed by the Lord, were abundant supply for the needy multitudes, and grew, in the act of distribution, into a store of which twelve hampers full of fragments remained when all were fully satisfied.”
― James Hudson Taylor, Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

“We have, then, in this beautiful section, as we have seen, a picture of unbroken communion and its delightful issues. May our lives correspond! First, one with the King, then speaking of the King; the joy of communion leading to fellowship in service, to a being all for Jesus, ready for any experience that will fit for further service, surrendering all to Him, and willing to minister all for Him. There is no room for love of the world here, for union with Christ has filled the heart; there is nothing for the gratification of the world, for all has been sealed and is kept for the Master's use. Jesus, my life is Thine! And evermore shall be Hidden in Thee. For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.”
― James Hudson Taylor, Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

“The consecration of all to our Master, far from lessening our power to impart, increases both our power and our joy in ministration. The five loaves and two fishes of the disciples, first given up to and blessed by the Lord, were abundant supply for the needy multitudes, and grew, in the act of distribution, into a store of which twelve hampers full of fragments remained when all were fully satisfied. We have, then, in this beautiful section, as we have seen, a picture of unbroken communion and its delightful issues. May our lives correspond! First, one with the King, then speaking of the King; the joy of communion leading to fellowship in service, to a being all for Jesus, ready for any experience that will fit for further service, surrendering all to Him, and willing to minister all for Him. There is no room for love of the world here, for union with Christ has filled the heart; there is nothing for the gratification of the world, for all has been sealed and is kept for the Master's use. Jesus, my life is Thine! And evermore shall be Hidden in Thee. For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.”
― James Hudson Taylor, Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

“She would fain claim him fully, without giving up herself fully to him; but it can never be: while she retains her own name, she can never claim his. She may not promise to love and honour if she will not also promise to obey: and till her love reaches that point of surrender she must remain an unsatisfied lover—she cannot, as a satisfied bride, find rest in the home of her husband. While she retains her own will, and the control of her own possessions, she must be content to live on her own resources; she cannot claim his.”
― James Hudson Taylor, Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

“O Lord, how happy should we be If we would cast our care on Thee, If we from self would rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best!”
― James Hudson Taylor, The Autobiography of Hudson Taylor: Missionary to China