C T Studd Missionary Quotes & Sayings

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

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

The "romance" of a missionary is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour in it; it doesn't stir a man's spirit or blood. So don't come out to be a missionary as an experiment; it is useless and dangerous. Only come if you feel you would rather die than not come. Don't come if you want to make a great name or want to live long. Come if you feel there is no greater honor, after living for Christ, than to die for Him. — C.T. 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

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

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

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

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