Sadhu Sundar Singh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Heart #Heaven #Desire
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

#Water #Doe #May
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Heart #Men #Rivers
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

#Prayer #Tired #People
There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Beautiful #Spiritual #Prayer
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Mother #Spiritual #Pain
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

#Christian #Winning #Light
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Years #Bears #Crosses
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Men #Self #Effort
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

#Christian #Cutting #Return
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Heart #Pride #Opposites
Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Prayer #Abandonment
From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Jesus #Men #Knowing
A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight by their battle for fresh existence.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Strong #Pain #Struggle
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

#Prayer #People #Desire
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

#Men #Would Be #Philosopher
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

#Prayer #Mean #Desire
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

#Taken #World #Bears
Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Ideas #Desire #Satisfaction
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Selfish #Men #Christianity
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

#Men #Wrath #Long
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

#People #Mad #Christianity
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

#Spring #Heart #Land
Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.
-- Sadhu Sundar Singh

#Self #Gods Will #Determine

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