Trial and Triumph Quotes

“We are to render good for evil," she urged the Huguenots. "Hate and Christianity are incompatible. We must seek peace with all.”
― Richard M. Hannula, Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

“Amy Carmichael's mother taught her to ask anything of God, for He promises to hear and answer. So three-year-old Amy knelt at her bedside and fervently prayed: "Dear Lord please make my brown eyes blue. Amen." With those words she slipped into bed and fell asleep, confident that she would awake with dazzling blue eyes. In the morning Amy rushed to the mirror only to discover that her eves were as brown as ever. As a wave of disappointment rolled over her, she suddenly realized that "no" is as much an answer as "yes." She had learned a valuable lesson. The Lord does answer prayer, but often the answer is no.”
― Richard M. Hannula, Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

“Livingstone explored for the rest of his life, enduring fevers, torrential rains, animal attacks, threatening tribes, and countless other hardships. Once when asked how he could make such sacrifices, Livingstone answered, "I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice which Christ made when He left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.”
― Richard M. Hannula, Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

“At times he forced the conquered people, under the threat of violence, to accept Christianity and submit to baptism. Naturally, many of these people resented Christianity because of it. Alcuin advised Charlemagne to win the people to Christ through faithful preaching and kindness. "If the light yoke of Christ were preached to the stubborn Saxons as much as the duty to give money," he told Charlemagne, "perhaps they would not reject the sacrament of baptism. What is the use of baptism without faith," Alcuin said. "A man can be forced to baptism, but not forced to believe.”
― Richard M. Hannula, Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History