Sadhu Sundar Singh Quotes

“God is revealed in the book of nature for God is its author.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“One day I saw a flower and began to contemplate its fragrance and beauty. As I thought more deeply, I recognized the creator of such wonders- not with my mortal eyes but with my spiritual eyes. This filled my heart with joy, but my joy was still greater when I recognized that same creator at work within my own soul. How wonderful is God, separate from creation yet ever filling it with his glorious presence.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Admonished for his lack of familiarity with twentieth century science, Sundar Singh said, 'What is science?' 'Natural selection and survival of the fittest,' he was told. 'Ah,' Sundar Singh replied, 'but I am more interested in divine selection and the survival of the unfit.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“We have been endowed with spiritual senses so that we can feel and enjoy God's presence.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Those who turn to the Master with open hearts will feel his power and experience peace.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Her pure life and complete devotion influenced me more strongly than it did the other family members. From the time of my earliest memories, she impressed upon me one rule above all others: when I woke from sleep, my first duty was to pray to God for spiritual nourishment and blessings. Only then could I break the night's fast. Sometimes I objected to this rule and insisted on having breakfast first, but my mother would never relent. Usually with coaxing, but when necessary with force, she impressed this rule deep onto my soul: seek God first and only then turn to other things.

At the time I was too young to recognize the true value of this education, and I resisted her. Later, however, I came to appreciate her example. Whenever I think back now on her loving guidance, I cannot thank God enough for her. For she planted in me, and tended in my early life, a profound love and fear of God. She carried a light within her, and her heart was the best spiritual training anyone could have: 'You must not be careless and worldly,' she would say. 'Seek peace of soul, and love of God always. Someday you must give yourself fully to the search, you must follow the way of the sadhu.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh

“The only condition necessary for us to break out of our material limitations and attain spiritual life is that we accept the life-giving warmth of God's spirit, just as the chick receives its mother's warmth. Without that warmth, we will not take on the nature of the Spirit, and we may die without ever hatching out of this material body.”
― Sadhu Sundar Singh, Sadhu Sundar Singh