Top 60 Richard Wurmbrand Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

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2. “A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.”

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3. “A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.”

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4. “God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love.”

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5. “God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.”

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6. “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

7. “A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, ‘I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.’ The Christian answered, ‘The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.’”

— Richard Wurmbrand

8. “We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

9. “A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.”

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10. “If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn’t happen.”

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11. “We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

12. “When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.”

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13. “Jesus said, “Teach all nations.” He never said that we need governmental permission to evangelize. Faithfulness to God and the Great Commission compels us to reach beyond borders to people in restricted nations.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

14. “As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I’d leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.”

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15. “The living Jesus will give you joy amid tribulation.”

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16. “What can we do to win these men to Christ?”

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17. “Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.”

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18. “A man who visits a barber to be shaved, or who orders a suit from a tailor, is not a disciple, but a customer. So one who comes to the Savior only to be saved is the Savior’s customer, not His disciple. A disciple is one who says to Christ, ‘How I long to do work like Yours! To go from place to place taking away fear; bringing instead joy, truth, comfort, and life eternal!”

— Richard Wurmbrand

19. “The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.”

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20. “Many persecuted believers have thrived in the desert of prison. Perpetua, a third-century Christian who was imprisoned and martyred for her faith, said of her prison cell: “The dungeon became to me as it were a palace, so that I preferred being there to being elsewhere.” Do not be fearful of dry times in your spiritual life. Tap into the Bridegroom, seeking only His living water and you will thrive.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

21. “My brothers and sisters, you also must believe that your lives are clay in the hands of a wonderful Sculptor. He never makes mistakes. If at times He is hard on you, it is because He sometimes has what we could call negative successes. He loses a pawn in order to win the chess game. He loses a battle in order to win a war. He causes his Son to endure suffering in order to save a world. Just trust. Don’t live on another’s messages, but discover the message for which He is molding you.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

22. “He said there were two kinds of Christians: those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

23. “Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.”

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24. “I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.”

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25. “There’s always a good reason to rejoice. There is a God in Heaven and in the heart. I had a piece of bread this morning. It was so good! Look now, the sun is shining! And so many here love me! Every day you do not rejoice is a day lost, my son!”

— Richard Wurmbrand

26. “Some tell me Preach the pure gospel! This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called a pure gospel are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police?”

— Richard Wurmbrand

27. “Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.”

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28. “It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.”

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29. “In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.”

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30. “I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don’t find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.”

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31. “Are you seeking Jesus? Where have you been looking for Him? As you begin your day, think through the various places you will be and the people you will be with; and envision Jesus standing next to you in each of those places.”

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32. “From now on a fire burned within us, as it did in the disciples on the road to Emmaus. “Snowflakes cannot fall on a hot stove,” says an Indian proverb. The coldness of this world could no longer harm us, although we had to pass through bitter times.”

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33. “How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?”

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34. “We can feel unworthy that the King of kings attends to such seemingly insignificant details in our lives. Read Matthew 6:25–34. As you think about your last week, thank Jesus for all the needs that He has met.”

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35. “Hammer away, ye hostile bands. Your hammers break; God’s anvil stands.”

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36. “My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, “Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.” I said to her, “If I do so, you lose your husband.” She replied, “I don’t wish to have a coward as a husband.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

37. “Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.”

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38. “Montefiore’s impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.”

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39. “We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.”

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40. “Persecution has always produced a better Christian – a witnessing Christian, a soul-winning Christian. Communist persecution has backfired and produced serious, dedicated Christians such as are rarely seen in free lands. These people cannot understand how anyone can be a Christian and not want to win every soul they meet.”

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41. “Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.”

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42. “God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.”

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43. “We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.”

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44. “We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers.”

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45. “Worms, fire, or the sea might consume my body. But my spirit will live in a world with no more wanderings and trials. I do not have to pass through many painful incarnations. Beyond death lies paradise.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

46. “If the embryo could reason in the womb, it would wonder why it grew hands and feet, and it would surely conclude that there must be another world to play and run and work.”

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47. “God is “the Truth.” The Bible is the “truth about the Truth.” Theology is the “truth about the truth about the Truth.” Christian people live in these many truths about the Truth, and, because of them, have not “the Truth.” Hungry, beaten, and drugged, we had forgotten theology and the Bible. We had forgotten the “truths about the Truth,” therefore we lived in “the Truth.”

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48. “The value of the Bibles smuggled in by these means cannot be understood by an American or an English Christian who “swims” in Bibles.”

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49. “People are so inoculated in childhood with small doses of Christianity that they seldom catch the real thing.”

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50. “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