Don Richardson > Quotes

“We are not here to loll and frolic but to bring in a harvest for God.”
― Don Richardson, Heaven Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Hope of Every Person

“If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?”
― Don Richardson, Heaven Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Hope of Every Person

“Whether acting to save some or all, rescuers rescue!”
― Don Richardson, Heaven Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Hope of Every Person

“free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
― Don Richardson, Heaven Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Hope of Every Person

“I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the love, the joy of knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way. A crisis came, I called upon Him, and suddenly He was there, alive! In fact, two thousand years had not aged Him a bit! I found He still had the same power to transform men's lives and hold their loyalty that He had manifested in the Gospels two millenniums before.”
― Don Richardson

“obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Boro replied, “Let those believe who want to believe. We’ll stay as we are.”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Whenever the long poles supporting their homes began to rot, they simply moved to a new location and built new homes.”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“understood that when treachery is philosophically justified, true peace is impossible.”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Myfood … is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work” (see John 4:4-34). And what is the will and work of Yahweh? To make His promise to Abraham come true—including that “bottom line” about all peoples on Earth being blessed through Abraham’s descendants! And as Jesus saw that crowd of Samaritans coming toward Him, He knew His promise to Abraham was one step closer to being fulfilled. Another people was coming in!”
― Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World

“He had, of course, to keep working toward that end. It was His mission. And it still involves His personal 4,000-year-old commitment to God and to Abraham. And Jesus alone knew how wistfully peoples like the Karen, the Lahu, the Wa, the Lisu, the Kachin, the Mizo, the Naga, the Gedeo, the Santal, the Incas and thousands of others were waiting. He would not fail them (or us!) by letting that vision die. But there was an even stronger reason which caused Him to persist. Immediately after the near sacrifice of Isaac, Yahweh confirmed His covenant with Abraham with that famous oath! Notice: “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you [Abraham] have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you … and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me” (Gen. 22:15-18).”
― Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World

“If someone had shown me a statement of Sawi grammar and asked me to guess the type of persons who developed it, I would have guessed a race of pedantic-philosopher types obsessed with fastidious concern for handling masses of detail efficiently.”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Surely John is describing not just the consummation of history, but the consummation of God’s special purpose in history to bless all peoples on Earth through Abraham’s Seed—Jesus Christ! John could as easily have described the scenes mentioned with a single Greek noun for the word “mankind.” Instead he explores the entire vocabulary of the Greek language, mustering every noun available to denote the kind of ethnic subdivisions of mankind which were the original God-ordained targets of the Abrahamic “blessing.” In other words, John is telling us through such prophecies that God will pursue His ancient purpose to the very end—when He will be free from the obligation He took upon Himself by that ancient oath. For it is the “unchanging nature of His purpose”!”
― Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World

“Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you (Koran 9:123).”
― Don Richardson, Secrets of the Koran

“In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.”
― Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts

“We sailed from Vancouver on the Oriana on March 19, 1962, and on April 13 arrived at Sentani, an airfield on the north coast”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“On subsequent visits I expanded further on the life and ministry of Jesus,”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Not only so, but there are also more than 300 declarative passages in the Old Testament which amplify God’s oath-sealed promise to bless all nations on Earth (see, for example, Ps. 67 and Isa. 49:6).”
― Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World