Time and distance quench a small love, but make a great love grow stronger.
– Richard Wurmbrand –
to his wife Sabina after they had been separated for ten years
(Richard was in a Romanian prison because of the Gospel)
Christian Life
September 13, 2012
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 –
September 12, 2012
The preoccupations of young women…do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
September 11, 2012
Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between a child and his parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.
– Rosalind Goforth –
September 10, 2012
My appeal is to the Word of God. What are the reasonings, or opinions, or inferences of men? What is the chaff to the wheat? says the Lord. Let the Bible decide each question.
– Horatius Bonar –
September 9, 2012
Father, make me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
– Jim Eillot –
September 8, 2012
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 –
September 7, 2012
Marriage can be a great blessing or a great curse, depending on where you place the Cross.
– CT Studd –
September 6, 2012
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 –