Quotes from CT Studd

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.

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

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last.

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.

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

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

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.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

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.

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

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