Sadhu Sundar Singh Quotes

#1. He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#2. Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.

Thomas A. Edison

#3. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#4. If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#5. Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#6. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#7. During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#8. If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#9. 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

#10. 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 he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#11. The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#12. People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#13. Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become the light of the world must necessarily burn and become less and less. By denying self, we are able to win others.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#14. Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Ray Kurzweil

#15. 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, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#16. Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#17. Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#18. Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#19. Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today - knowing there's a garden of beauty that awaits me.

Joyce Rupp

#20. Jack furiously chopped vegetables. Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm ... Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.

Kiersten White

#21. Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

Cherie Blair

#22. Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#23. Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#24. You're all murdering life ... You're all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you're never actually living what is. You're killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are ... where you are.

Luke Rhinehart

#25. ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#26. From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#27. Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#28. I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.

Ally Condie

#29. Live whatever draws out the magic within.

A.D. Posey