Jackie Pullinger > Quotes

“We need people who will go, and stay until the end.”
― Jackie Pullinger

“You Westerners, he continued, 'you come here and tell us about Jesus. You can stay for a year or two, and your conscience will feel good, and then you can go away. Your Jesus will call you to other work back home. It's true some of you can raise a lot of money on behalf of us underprivileged people. But you'll still be living in your nice houses with your refrigerators and servants and we'll still be living here. What you are doing really has nothing to do with us. You'll go home anyhow, sooner or later.' This kind of conversation took place many times; it was an indictment of those evangelists who flew into Hong Kong, sang sweet songs about the love of Jesus on stage and on Hong Kong television, then jumped back into their planes and flew away again. 'Fine', said Ah Ping to me savagely one day, 'fine for them, fine for us too, we wouldn't mind believing in Jesus too if we could get into a plane and fly away round the world like them. They can sing about love very nicely, but what do they know about us? They don't touch us - they know nothing.”
― Jackie Pullinger, Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens

“Our summer missionaries did not stay to see this though we hoped they might yearn for it somehow. Stay for the party. The fleeting volunteer sometimes catches a course- sweet and sour - but no one savours the whole menu like me. 'Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink,' said the master of tbe banquet when he called the bridegroom aside, 'but you have saved the best til now.”
― Jackie Pullinger, Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens

“If you want to see revival, plant your church in the gutter.”
― Jackie Pullinger

“God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.”
― Jackie Pullinger

“The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.”
― Jackie Pullinger, Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens

“If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.”
― Jackie Pullinger, Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens

“All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.”
― Jackie Pullinger, Chasing the Dragon: One Womans Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens