“Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Abdul Jaleel Qureshi, Hazrat Abu Bakr Nay Farmaya (Ferozesons, 2011), p.64)
“Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)
“God's commandment is that those who serve Him must separate themselves from the world.”
Watchman Nee (1903–1972) Chinese church leader
Source: Separation from the World, p. 4
Fred Phelps (1929–2014) American pastor and activist
2000s, God Hates America (2001)
Context: God hates America, and God demonstrated that hatred to some modest degree only last Tuesday -- sent in those bombers, those hellacious 767 Boeing bombers, and it was a glorious sight. What you need to do is see in those flames -- those sickening, twisting, burning, life-destroying flames, brightly shining from every television set around the world! You need to see in those flames a little preview of the flames of Hell that are going to soon engulf you, my friend. Burn your soul forever!
“Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(1898) Source: Separation and Service, Part II http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Separation_and_Service.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 58
“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher