Charles Studd Quotes

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• How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him…
• Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
• Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
• The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
• Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
• For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
• True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
• I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the…
• I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was…
• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who…
• My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
• ...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them.…
• A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.
• Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I…
• Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who…
• Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now.…
• Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!
• Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus…
• Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

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