Alone With God Quotes

“The tyrant of Syracuse once went to the slavephilosopher Epictetus and told him, “I’ll pay the ransom for you and you will be liberated ” Epictetus replied, “Why do you care about me? Free yourself.” “But I am a king,” said the amazed tyrant. “This I contest,” was the answer of the philosopher. “He who masters his passions is a king even while in chains. He who is ruled by his passions is a slave even while sitting on a throne.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Alone with God

“I wish to be an “I” no longer. I reject my “I.” My desire is to be a “He.” “When He is revealed, we shall be like Him” (1 John 3:2).”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Alone with God

“Last night I dreamt that an Orthodox Jew with a beard and curls asked me, “What is the other world?” I answered, “It is where one has the answer. This world is the world of asking questions.” But I am already at the border of the other world. I begin to have the replies. We have our first reply in the Bible. But scholars know that the Bible is like reality as defined by Planck and Heisenberg in modern physics, a wave of probabilities. You can never say what and where an elementary particle is and what it will do. You handle it by working on probabilities.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Alone with God

“In the free world, it is customary during a strike for men to picket the entrance to a factory. They often use violence to prevent from entering any workers who choose not to join their actions. Likewise we Christians must decide to boycott hell, picketing the entrance with determination.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Alone with God

“The Bible verses that comfort me most are two verses that are not in the Bible.” First, I am happy that the Bible never mentions Jesus asking anyone what sins they had committed, how many, of what gravity, under what circumstances, with what complicity. He met sinners and told them, “Be of good cheer, son or daughter, your sins are forgiven.” Second, what I appreciate is that the Bible records no instance in which anyone apologized or asked Jesus for forgiveness during His earthly life. On the last evening before His crucifixion, the disciples had forsaken Him and one had denied Him. Afterwards, when they met their resurrected Lord, they should at least have said, “I’m sorry.” But whoever looked into the face of Jesus saw so much kindness, so much love, such a willingness to forgive, that he knew there was no need to ask.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Alone with God

“Materialists do not love matter. They have no sense of its “earnest expectation” (Romans 8:19), and do not sympathize with its “bondage of corruption” (Romans 8:21).”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Alone with God