Some Quotes from Hudson Taylor's Autobiography

With God all things are possible, and no conversion ever takes place save by the almighty power of the Holy Ghost. The great need therefore of every Christian worker is to know God.

Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts, and our own feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things, may be the true cause of our want of success.

The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in God; and our faith in God ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes.

(This last quote followed a story where he refused to put on a life-jacket in the middle of a storm because he felt it evinced a lack of faith in God)

The cold, and even the hunger, the watchings...[list of his hardships]...were well and wisely chosen, and tenderly and lovingly meted out. What circumstances could have rendered the Word of God sweeter, and the presence of God so real, the help of God so precious?

The reply of Chinese convert upon hearing that the gospel had been in England for hundreds of years:

What! Is it possible that for hundreds of years you have had the knowledge of these glad tidings in your possession and yet have only now come to preach it to us? My father sought after the truth for more than twenty years, and died without finding it. Oh, why did you not come sooner?

Perishing China so filled my heart and mind that there was no rest by day, and little sleep by night, till health broke down.