I am getting desperately afraid of going to heaven for I have had the vision of the shame I shall suffer as I get my first glimpse of the Lord Jesus; His majesty, power and marvellous love for me, who treated Him so meanly and shabbily on earth, and acted as though I did Him a favour in serving Him! No wonder God shall have to wipe away the tears off all faces, for we shall be broken-hearted when we see the depth of His love and the shallowness of ours.
– CT Studd –
Our recruits come out from home vastly raw and are largely parrots. They have been crammed with religion as though for an examination, and seem to come out to carry on their education rather than finish it. So many are just taught doctrines without ever having thought them out or searched the Scriptures for themselves. They come out like infants with pop guns. They need to be trained into soldiers with real devil-defying weapons. Some arrive thinking they are the last thing in high-class Christianity and have to find out they know little. That is why I keep the newcomers here at base for a time till I can make them really think out things and settle questions, not from hearsay but from Bible-say.
– CT Studd –
Don’t go into the study to prepare a sermon — that’s nonsense. Go into your study to God and get so fiery that your tongue is like a burning coal and you have got to speak.
– CT Studd –
Marriage can be a great blessing or a great curse, depending on where you place the Cross.
– CT Studd –
Difficulties, dangers, disease, death, or divisions don’t deter any but Chocolate Soldiers from executing God’s Will. When someone says there is a lion in the way, the real Christian promptly replies, “That’s hardly enough inducement for me; I want a bear or two besides to make it worth my while to go.”
– CT Studd –
How could I spend the best years of my life in living for the honours of this world, when thousands of souls are perishing every day?
– CT Studd –
The best cure for discouragement or qualms is another daring plunge of faith.
– CT Studd –
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
– CT Studd –
Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.
– CT Studd –