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“On one thing all who knew him were agreed: the secret of his usefulness lay in his intense and passionate life of prayer and his unshakeable confidence in God. ‘When”
― Faith Cook, Surprised by God: Lives Turned Upside Down

“that calm face. Nor could he shut out the sound of those words, ‘I am ready, doctor. Just lay me down easy. Anywhere. I am ready.’ Ready for death? This”
― Faith Cook, Surprised by God: Lives Turned Upside Down

“Always fiercely independent, Ruth’s ailment now made her dependent on others—a situation she found hard to bear. Now she had to learn the lessons of submission in times of suffering, and to seek deliverance from”
― Faith Cook, Surprised by God: Lives Turned Upside Down

“save me—then I believed he was saving me—then I believed he had saved me; and it was so.’ ‘God has pardoned all my sins,’ he confided to someone afterwards. The news spread”
― Faith Cook, Surprised by God: Lives Turned Upside Down

“his message was always succinct and startling: ‘If ever I utter the words I think,’ he declared on one occasion, ‘I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God’s words.’ Manly”
― Faith Cook, Surprised by God: Lives Turned Upside Down

“If ever I utter the words I think,’ he declared on one occasion, ‘I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God’s words.”
― Faith Cook, Surprised by God: Lives turned upside down