Eric Carlsen

“I told them that God controlled all things, not fate, and that our lives were determined by him and by the choices we make to obey or disobey his Word. I used this opportunity to tell them what the Bible says,”
― Paul Hattaway, The Heavenly Man: The remarkable true story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

“Some people go through their whole life free on the outside but prisoners in their hearts, enslaved to sin and bondage. These men face the most miserable existence possible inside prison, but on the inside they are as free as birds gliding over the mountain tops!”
― Paul Hattaway, The Heavenly Man: The remarkable true story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

“If there is a problem somewhere,” he said with his dry chuckle, “this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person—only one—will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

“Wherever the church has lost this passion and fervor, may stories like mine disturb the cobwebs that limit believers’ faith to a menu selection—when Jesus is truly the feast Himself.”
― Rifqa Bary, Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus