Charles Studd Quotes

#1. A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

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#2. Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

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#3. 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 to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

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#4. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

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#5. Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

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#6. For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

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#7. The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

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#8. Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

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#9. Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

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#10. 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 often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

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#11. True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

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#12. 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 to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

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#13. It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

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#14. Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

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#15. Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

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#16. Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

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#17. What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

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#18. Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

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#19. Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

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#20. David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone ... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.

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#21. Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

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#22. We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

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#23. My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

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#24. Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.

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#25. If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

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#26. The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

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#27. 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 Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

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#28. 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. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

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