Victorious Faith Quotes

“There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“Luther said that every Christian is “simul justus et peccator, comprehensor et viator”—“simultaneously righteous and sinful, a man who has reached the goal and one who reaches out toward it.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“For the rest of your life, you must realize that you can depend more on Christ’s repairing your wrongs than on your not committing them in the first place. We are all men and seem to learn best from the errors that we commit.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“An English sergeant once stationed in Egypt tells this incident about himself: “There was a civilian in the same company who was converted. We gave that fellow an awful time. One very wet night, he came in tired. Before getting into bed, he went down on his knees to pray. My boots were heavy with wet mud, and I let him have one on each side of his head. He just went on with his prayers. Next morning, I found those boots beautifully polished and standing by the side of my bed. That was his reply to me, and it broke my heart. I was saved that day.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“Though love may end with defeat for the lover, it is still the best of ways. But sometimes it can be victorious.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“Jesus taught that when you are slapped you should turn the other cheek. The probable result will be a second and a third slap. I had the experience myself. A meek attitude is interpreted as weakness by the adversary. Christians in concentration camps would seek to fulfill the commandment of the Lord: when compelled to walk one mile with some heavy loads on their shoulders, they would walk two. The result was that the norm was increased the next day and the exhausted prisoners had to fulfill tasks that crushed their bodies. Jesus told us to walk the extra mile. He never promised that this would give us success in our enterprises, but only that we would become perfect in love. This is enough.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“Never abandon a fearless fight! Think only about Pharaoh: how many plagues he resisted! And you, child of God, fear that you will not resist temptations? You will surely overcome evil, but sometimes you have to take it slowly. Francis of Assisi knew that some robbers surrounded his monastery and robbed from people who came to worship. The other monks wished to call the police to arrest them. Francis told them not to do so. He proposed that they go to the robbers with some food and wine and obtain from them a promise not to kill, but only to steal. After a time he got them to promise never to steal on Sundays or feast days. And so, slowly, slowly, he brought them to conversion. You, too, as time goes on, will progress in the ways of righteousness. Be happy about those who can break bad habits at once. But if you cannot, and you find yourself slipping back into the old habit patterns, do not despair!”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith

“St. Maria Goretti, who was stabbed by a murderer, said while dying, “I wish to have him near me in paradise.” This murderer, who had become a Christian in prison, attended the ceremony of beatification for the same Maria. Christians, while suffering at the hand of enemies, love them. They can do so because they have before their eyes the great innocent Sufferer—Jesus.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, Victorious Faith