27 Quotes by Sadhu Sundar Singh

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

God is revealed in the book of nature for God is its author.

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.

We have been endowed with spiritual senses so that we can feel and enjoy God’s presence.

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.

In this world there is very little harmony between the inner and the outer life. But, if we live according to the will of God, then the time will come when there will be perfect harmony between the inner and the outer life for ever. The outer will be exactly like the inner and the inner exactly like the outer. And by his grace we shall become perfect like our Father in Heaven.

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?

Those who turn to the Master with open hearts will feel his power and experience peace.

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.