Birth: March 24, 1909 Death: February 17, 2001
God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love.
I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I trembl….
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of Christians who h….
I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus….
Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as thes….
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them..
I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls ….
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Who….
When Christians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church. But when those in captive ….
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning the….
A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The po….
We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us..
A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith..
A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for..
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of u….
God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it..
When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to p….
Some tell me Preach the pure gospel! This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism. Is….
There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those wh….
It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great. The ….
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as the….