"It is good to find that among our missionaries as well as other missions, most have chosen to stay at their posts instead of evacuating. They have chosen to stay to suffer with the people. I am so grateful to be back here."
— Peter Torjesen
Source: Written after returning to Hequ, Shanxi, through the war zones in 1938 (quoted in the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity, "Peter & Valborg Torjesen")
Suffering, love, darkness, fear, light
Views: 140
"Without prayer, all our plans, our building and our teaching can hardly bear true fruit; what we should ask for is not that our work be made easy, but that our faith may not waver."
— IntoOne
Source: IntoOne meditation
Prayer, Holy Spirit, Plans, Work, Faith
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"I now think that this striving, effort, longing, hoping for better days to come, is not the true way to happiness, holiness or usefulness… Abiding, not striving nor struggling; looking off unto Him; trusting Him for present power; trusting Him to subdue all inward corruption; resting in the love of an almighty Saviour, in the conscious joy of a complete salvation, a salvation "from all sin"… willing that His will should truly be supreme…"
— John McCarthy
Source: John McCarthy's letter to Hudson Taylor (1869), in Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission, ch. "The Exchanged Life"
Happiness, Holiness, The Way, Looking to Him, Corruption, Rest, Love, Salvation, Sin, God's Will
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"Sitting there on my bed's edge, I raised both hands heavenward. "God, if there be a God," I whispered, for I was not going to believe in what did not exist just to get a mental opiate, "if You will prove to me that You are, and if You will give me peace, I will give You my whole life. I'll do anything You ask me to do, go where You send me, obey You all my days.""
— Isobel Miller Kuhn
Source: By Searching (1957), ch. 2
Promise, Anchor, Faith, Sight, Hand
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""If I could, I would take the whole misery of the world on myself, and throw myself into the sea with it." … "You need not do that, Eva, it was done long ago by Christ on the Cross.""
— Evangeline French
Source: Mildred Cable & Francesca French, Something Happened (1933)
Suffering, Misery, Cross, World
Views: 134
"If God leads us into a dark place, we need not complain of the long and hard road; with Christ present, even the darkest wilderness can be pierced with light."
— IntoOne
Source: IntoOne meditation
God, Darkness, Christ, Presence, Light
Views: 113