Heroes in the Faith
May their stories not be forgotten

Aged bishop of Smyrna
"He who grants me to endure the fire will enable me also to remain on the pyre unmoved, without the security you desire from nails."

Bible translator whose version lasted a millennium.
"Make knowledge of the Scripture your love … Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries."

Champion of the serious, devout, and holy life
"He therefore is a devout man who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life parts of piety by doing everything in the name of God."

Passionate reformer
"At last meditating day and night, by the mercy of God, I began to understand that the righteousness of God is that through which the righteous live by a gift of God, namely by faith. Here I felt as if I were entirely born again and had entered paradise itself through the gates that had been flung open."

Missionary-explorer of Africa
"[I am] serving Christ when shooting a buffalo for my men or taking an observation, [even if some] will consider it not sufficiently or even at all missionary."

Architect of the Middle Ages
"Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities… The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth"

Courageous theologian
"Faith is awe in the presence of the divine incognito; it is the love of God that is aware of the qualitative difference between God and man and God and the world."

The brilliant "dumb ox"
"In order that men might have knowledge of God, free of doubt and uncertainty, it was necessary for divine truth to be delivered to them by way of faith, being told to them as it were, by God himself who cannot lie."

Revivalist who moved with the times
"Sin is black, grace abounds, the will is free."—one biographer's summary of Lyman Beecher's Theology

Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”
"Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers."

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"[Uncle Tom's Cabin is] perhaps the most influential novel ever published, a verbal earthquake, an ink-and-paper tidal wave." —one of Harriet Beecher Stowe's critics

Murdered archbishop of Canterbury
"For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death."

Mystery writer and apologist
"Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something."

Father and maker of church history
"I feel inadequate to do [church history] justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path."

Salty evangelist
"Nowadays we think we are too smart to believe in the Virgin birth of Jesus and too well educated to believe in the Resurrection. That's why people are going to the devil in multitudes."

Spanish mystic of the soul’s dark night
"Turn not to the easiest, but to the most difficult … not to the more, but to the less; not towards what is high and precious, but to what is low and despised; not towards desiring anything, but to desiring nothing."

Russian novelist of spiritual depth
"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."

“Enormous” Essayist, poet, writer
"What can one be but frivolous about serious things? Without frivolity they are simply too tremendous."

Martyrologist
"What storms and tempests it [the church] hath overpast, wondrous it is to behold."

“The Fifth Evangelist”
"At a reverent performance of music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence."

Mystic and political activist
"[You are] not to love Me for your own sake, or your neighbor for your own sake, but to love Me for Myself, yourself for Myself, your neighbor for Myself." —from a divine vision to Catherine of Siena

America's greatest theologian
"[I wish] to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child."

Controversial evangelist to China
"Those that adore Heaven instead of the Lord of Heaven are like a man who, desiring to pay the emperor homage, prostrates himself before the imperial palace at Peking and venerates its beauty."

First Christian emperor
"I have experienced this in others and in myself, for I walked not in the way of righteousness. … But the Almighty God, who sits in the court of heaven, granted what I did not deserve."

Faith missionary to China
"China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women … The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first and foremost in everything and at every time—even life itself must be secondary."

Father of American revivalism
"I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause, and cannot plead yours."

Fabled Victorian writer
"With his divine alchemy, he [God] turns not only water into wine, but common things into radiant mysteries, yea, every meal into a Eucharist, and the jaws of death into an outgoing gate."

Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”
"Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers."

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