Safely Home Quotes
"Things appear synchronized. A pattern is emerging. Something great seems poised to happen. Something else lurks in the shadows. It seeks to devour the greatness before it is born."
"Two destinies are converging. But neither suspects it."
"The soil was tilled and the seeds planted twenty years ago. No. A hundred years, at least. Now we will see what fruit the vine produces or whether it will wither and die."
"Hanging in the balance are not just two men, but two families, perhaps two nations."
"The loss could be immense. Or the gain immeasurable."
"We must watch closely as the tapestry is woven... or as it unravels."
"Somebody's got to make the tough calls, and I don’t see anyone else volunteering."
"Foreigners cannot stay in Chinese home without registering stay at local PSB and receiving permission."
"He prided himself on letting nothing get the best of him, certainly not jet lag."
"We think in pictures. We invented the proverb."
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
"The problems on the outside are always easier to deal with than the problems inside."
"Do not confuse China’s skin with her bones."
"A wise pastor said China’s problem used to be Maoism, but now it is Me-ism."
"Let not moss-covered error move thee at its side, As the world on truth’s current glides by."
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry."
"If you give God everything you have, he will provide everything you need."
"I wish you were as quick to believe Yesu’s truth as you are the Party’s propaganda."
"I’m glad we do not have one. Money-god figures appear on the screen."
"The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
"The main goal is to make more money, to own more things."
"Getting rich is the main topic on television."
"They say, ‘If we report you, no one will let you work at all.’"
"They are not talking to each other. They are talking to God."
"If you are allowed to bring in a Bible for yourself, but if they inventory it, they can check you when you leave to be sure you take out one Bible for every one you bring in."
"The Party would not let me do it now for the same reason they wouldn’t let me do it then."
"A frog was in a well. A bird stopped to drink at the well. They argued about how the sky looked. The frog thought it was very small. The bird thought it was very big."
"Image is everything—that’s an American proverb, isn’t it? Most of the world saw like the frog sees, not the bird."
"I see a fifteen-hundred-mile-long tombstone marking the graves of tens of thousands of Chinese peasants who died under forced labor."
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
"It is hard to keep the Sun in your pocket."
"God’s work done in God’s way never lacks God’s supply."
"What does it profit a man, Ben Fielding, to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
"If your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world."
"A true believer may spend a sleepless night doubting God. But what keeps a Communist awake at night is his fear there is a God."
"If he does not trust Yesu, he trusts other men or he trusts himself. Neither is trustworthy."
"Earth is the battlefield where two kingdoms wage a savage war for the souls of men."
"We do not always recognize miracles at the time they happen—back then I just felt very lucky. Now I know it can only be explained by the hand of God."
"You think he was an angel? I think even when I was bitter against Yesu, even when I rejected him, Yesu was faithful to me."
"God is entitled to pass judgment—he is the Judge. You think him judgmental? I do not think he cowers in fear of your opinion."
"The devil is the father of lies. If you believe peace is found in the dark religions that deny Yesu, you also have been deceived."
"Buddhism calls for dependence on one’s heart or inner nature. But the heart is deceitful and wicked."
"If anyone causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose faith, it would be better for that person to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around the neck."
"Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised."
"It is not that you have never heard the voices of demons, but that you haven’t known you were hearing them."
"All ancient men knew about the Flood and the ark. All families told stories, passing them on for thousands of years."
"Ancient men did not stay true to God. Other religions developed. Nations began to forget why they once offered sacrifices to God."
"The tragedy is, ancient men did not stay true to God. Other religions developed. Buddhism, Hinduism—all of them."
"The greatest truths are hidden in myths, and perhaps Chinese myth is not so far from God's truth."
"Righteousness comes only from what has been done in the sacrifice of the lamb over me."
"Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning."
"Do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord, no matter what happens. Remember the great reward it brings you!"
"If you confess with your mouth 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
"For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. And a righteous person will live by faith."
"Heaven is my fatherland. Heaven is my home."
"Nobody knows. At least tens of thousands. Maybe millions. I have it on good authority that one-third of China’s tea is produced in Laogai camps."
"No due process, no compensation for work, terrible conditions, physical punishment rampant. It’s like a horror movie."
"The best thing we can do for human rights is what we’re doing. Prosperity will bring social reform with it; how many times have you preached that sermon?"
"I pray for the church. I pray for my prison mates, whom I may not see again. Please help them."
"In his pride the wicked does not seek you. In all his thoughts there is no room for God."
"I am a simple locksmith who wants to be home with his wife and child."
"I’ve failed at being a husband and a father. I’ve failed at being a Christian."
"Ben Fielding is a one-trick pony. Business is my thing. Put me in a boardroom or a sales meeting, and I’m floating on air."
"Compared to me, you have nothing. But then I look at Ming and Shen and how they adore you, and I’m jealous."
"Temporary suffering is a small price to pay for eternal happiness."
"Mao intended it for evil, but God intended it for good."
"No man should judge a painting when he can only see the back of the canvas."
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
"We do not understand providence. But the Chinese say, 'A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.'"
"They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."
"God works beneath the surface and around the corner and above the roof."
"What you do to one of the least of these, my brothers and sisters, you are doing to me."
"Death is not a wall; it is a doorway. We live on one side of death. There is another side."
"Every minute of those years he had relived the sufferings he inflicted on others."
"That which he had laid upon others was now laid upon him—endlessly, relentlessly."
"He longed to pluck out his eyes, to keep from seeing what he saw."
"Misery loves company, and he had long sought the consolation of others."
"He felt a burning. A fury welled up inside him."
"His hell was a growing cancer, gnawing at him, eating away at him, devouring him."
"He could see now through all his rationalizations."
"He had lived his short todays as if there were no long tomorrow."
"They did not think of him at all. He was unimportant. Insignificant."
"His atheist’s prayer had been answered."
"He had wanted a world where no one else was in charge."
"He had charmed his friends and cheated his enemies, but death he could not cheat, hell he could not charm."
"The King searched the silent planet, eyes burning for his needy children."