The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray,… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share
Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share
The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful,… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
