Quotes from Jackie Pullinger

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

I banked my life on a miracle.

I went up to a man and said 'Jesus loves you' but I realised that it didn't mean anything unless I did it.

The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

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.

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.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.

If you want to see revival, plant your church in the gutter.

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.