C T Studd was an outstanding cricketer, and studied law at Cambridge. But he left fame and fortune to become one of the 'Cambridge Seven' who went to work with Hudson Taylor in the China Inland Mission. Many years later he was called by God to go to Africa, and set out at the age of 53 in utter reliance on God's promises. This was the beginning of what became WEC International.

These colourful quotations, taken from hundreds of his personal letters, present a further challenge to all-out commitment to Jesus Christ.