Richard Wurmbrand: Quotes about love

Richard Wurmbrand was Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.”

Richard Wurmbrand

Source: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 58.

“I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold--and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.”

Richard Wurmbrand

Source: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 55.

Richard Wurmbrand quote: “God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love”

“God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love”

Richard Wurmbrand

Source: Tortured for Christ N/E

“Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.”

Richard Wurmbrand

Source: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 83.

“I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.”

Richard Wurmbrand

Source: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 75.

“Past sins, if you repent of them, whiten you. They made a great psalmist out of David, a faithful believer out of the prostitute Rahab, a zealous apostle out of the persecutor Saul. I have been a loved preacher and writer with a particular vocation. My sermons and books would not have had the same quality without my past of anarchy, vice, and violent atheism.”

Richard Wurmbrand

If Prison Walls Could Speak (1972)