Charles Studd Quotes & Sayings

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone. — Charles Studd

I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus. — Charles Studd

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

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. — Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. — Charles Studd

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin. — Charles Studd

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. — Charles Studd

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

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. — Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. — Charles Studd

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. — Charles Studd

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

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. — Charles Studd

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. — Charles Studd

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves. — Charles Studd

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! — Charles Studd

I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me. — Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours. — Charles 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. — Charles Studd

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last. — Charles Studd

Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle. — Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done. — Charles Studd

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. — Charles Studd

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity? — Charles Studd

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. — Charles Studd

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! — Charles Studd

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. — Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel ... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance ... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do. — Charles Studd

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

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. — Charles Studd

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