Eric Liddell Quotes

We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!

Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.