"In what words can we express the tragedy of Christian martyrs, who, coming home after years in prison, are received with scorn by their children, who in the meantime have become militant atheists? This book is written not so much with ink, as with the blood of bleeding hearts. As in the book of Daniel when the three young men who were put in the furnace did not smell like fire upon being delivered from it, so the Christians who have been in communist prisons don't smell like the bitterness against the communists. A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you it's perfume. Likewise Christians, tortured by the communists, rewarded their torturers by love. We brought many of our jailers to Christ. And we are dominated by one desire: to give communists who have made us suffer the best we have, the salvation that comes from our Lord Jesus Christ. I did not have the privilege, as many of my brethren in the faith had, to die a martyr's death in prison. I was released and cold even come out of Romania to the West. In the west I found in many church leaders the contrary sentiment of that which was predominant in the Underground Church behind the Bamboo and former Iron Curtains. Many Christians in the West have no love for those in captive nations. Proof of it is that they do nothing for their salvation. They have missions to persuade Christians of one denomination to change to another. But many have no mission to captive nations, claiming that such work is 'against the law'! They don't love them. Otherwise they would have long since created such an impossible looking mission, just as William Carey who loved the Indians and Hudson Taylor the Chinese have created their respected missions. But it is not enough that they do not love those in captive nations and do nothing to win them for Christ. By their complacency, by their neglect, and sometimes by acting as actual accomplices, some Western church leaders strengthen the infidels in their infidelity. They help the communists to intrude into Western Churches and to win leadership in the churches of the world. They help Christians remain unaware of the danger of communism. By not loving the communists and those from other captive nations, and by doing nothing to win them for Christ (under the pretext that they are nor allowed to do so, as if the first Christian asked permission from Nero to spread the gospel,), Western church leaders do not love their own flocks either, if they do no allow them to participate in this spiritual battle around the world". - Richard Wurmbrand; Tortured For Christ
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