Charles Studd
Charles Studd
Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd, was a British cricketer, missionary, and a contributor to The Fundamentals...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth2 December 1860
joy missionary given
My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
missionary bones good-things
A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.
simple different missionary
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
nails missionary christ
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.
doors years missionary
For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
giving missionary missions
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
people missionary christianity
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
missionary want impossible
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
battle gives man peace strength turns vigor vital war
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.
chameleon god human man moses species
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.
alone brother david faced god heart israel man mighty war
David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.
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Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
choose elsewhere floor god littered man nonsense wrecks
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.
against among bosom braver bravest christian counts death peace soft soldier true whom
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.