• The language of love and the language of seduction are the same. The one who wishes a girl for a wife and the one who wishes her for a night in order to throw her away afterward, both says "I love you". Jesus has told us to distinguish the language of seduction from the language of love, and to know the wolves clad in sheepskin from the real sheep. 

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• Christianity has become dramatic with us. When you free Christians win a soul for Christ, you win a member of a quietly living Church. But when we win a man, we know that he may well have to go to prison, that his children may become orphans. The joy of having brought somebody to Christ is always mixed with this feeling that there is a price that must be paid.

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• We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, you have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner. 

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• The communist torturers often said "There is no God, no punishment for evil. We can do whatever we wish." I heard one torturer say, "I thank God in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart" He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflicted on prisoners. I am very sorry if a crocodile eats a man, but I cannot reproach the crocodile. He is not a moral being. So no reproaches can be made to the communists. Communism has destroyed any moral sense in them. They boasted they had no pity in their hearts. I learned from them as they allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I would leave not the smallest place for Satan in mine. 

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• From the point of view of salvation all souls are equal; from the point of view of missionary strategy they are not equal. It is more important to win a man of great influence, who can afterward win thousands, than to speak to a savage in the jungle assureing salvation only for him. Therefore, Jesus chose to end His ministry not in some small village, but in Jerusalem, the spiritual headquarters of the world. For this same reason Paul strove so much to arrive in Rome.

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• There is only one method of resistance to brainwashing. This is 'heart-washing'. If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus and if the heart loves Him, you can resist all tortures. God will judge us not according to how much we can endure, but how much we could love. 

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• It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.  

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• At the age of nine when his father and mother were taken away form him, he passed through a crisis in his Christian life. He had become bitter and questioned all his religion. He had problems which children usually don't have at this age. At the age of eleven, Mihai began to earn his living as a regular worker. Suffering had produced a wavering in his faith. But after two years of my wife's imprisonment, he was allowed to see her. He went to the communist prison and saw his mother behind iron bars. She was dirty, thin with calloused hands, wearing the shabby uniform of a prisoner. He scarcely recognized her. Her first words were, "Mihai, believe in Jesus!". The guards, in a savage rage pulled her away from Mihai and took her out. Mihai wept seeing his mother dragged away. This minute was the minute of his conversion. He knew that if Christ can be loved under such circumstances, He surely is the true Savior. He said afterwards, "If Christianity had no other arguments in its favor than the fact that my mother believes in it, this is enough for me."

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• In prison they have daily asked this almighty Father for bread and have received instead cabbage with unmentionable filth. Nevertheless they believe God to be the loving Father. They are like Job who said that he would believe in God even if He would slay him. They are like Jesus who called God "Father", even when He was seemingly forsaken on the cross. Whoever has known the spiritual beauty of the Underground Church cannot be satisfied any more with the emptiness of some Western churches. 

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• Christianity has to fight against many aspects of sin, not only against communism. We are not obsessed by just this one problem. The goal of man is to become Christlike. To prevent this is the main aim of communism. They are primarily anti religious. They believe that after death man becomes salt and minerals, nothing else. They wish the whole life to be lived on the level of matter. They know only masses. Their word is that of the demon in the NT when asked what his name was: "We are legion." Personality - the greatest gift of god to mankind - has to be crushed. 

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• The Underground church feeds upon atheist literature, just as Elijah was fed by ravens. The communists published books to show how stupid bible verses are and to do so, quoted many Bible verses. How we rejoiced over it! The book was printed in millions of copies and it was full of Bible verses which were unspeakably beautiful. Bible verses remain true, even if the Devil quotes them. 

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• The fact that you can be an atheist when everything goes well does not prove the truth of atheism. It doesn't hold up in moments of great crisis. Even after becoming prime minister of the Soviet Union, Lenin himself prayed when things went wrong. 

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• There are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great. The next point to remember is that persecution has always produced a better Christian - a witnessing Christian, a soul winning Christian. These people cannot understand how anyone can be a Christian and not want to win every soul they meet. They live their Christianity - and when they begin to witness for Christ the people listen and believe - because they have seen Christ in their lives. 

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