The Pastor's Wife

loved this book.....loved the honesty and simplicity of the author and is a timely read for today in view of current events. Every Christian should read to prepare for whatever the Lord brings into their lives.

I wanted to cry reading this incredible story. After WW II the thought was, "Yay, the war is over". But the communists were just beginning their reign of terror. How anyone could survive was a miracle. Sabina Wurmbrand did a magnificent job telling this story. She kept her light shining, definitely a righteous person in the Lord's eyes.

Unlike the previous book I just finished "The Runaway Pastor's Wife" this book was very interesting...I found myself wishing this wife would have run away and could have many times...I found myself wondering how she could have put her son through so much heartache and peril at the hands of the russians..To me she seemed to be a "religious zealot" and I find it hard to relate to those types of people..Still kept reading this book till the end and loved it..

The story of the suffering of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand (co-founders of the Voice of the Martyrs ministry) is a well-known and powerful story of redemption and triumph amidst their horrific suffering at the hands of a communist regime. I am forever grateful for their story of Christ's power at work in them. I was rather uncomfortable with some portions of Mrs. Wurmbrand's theology and her role as a woman/wife; she appeared to dismiss the biblical roles that are given to both men and women; at times, she even appeared boastful about her own ability and I felt that really drew attention to herself as opposed to giving the glory (every bit of it) to the One who does the impossible and who is sovereignly ordaining all of our trials and triumphs: in Christ alone our hope is found! Each are spiritually equals, however, a man is chosen to lead and his wife is to align herself or rank herself under his leadership. This is not an admission of weakness on the women's part (because it takes great strength place ourselves under the leadership of men), but we follow this order because it is God's design in the Garden with our first parents. To distort it also maligns the image of Christ and His Bride (the Church) which is why men and women have been given different roles: so that they can point to what Dr. John Piper calls the covenant-keeping love of Christ (who is at the center of a godly, biblical marriage) to the world. I cannot say that I recommend this book for this reason. Additionally, the grammar and translation may need a more careful eye. The Kindle version contains many typographical and possibly translation errors.

This is not a book counseling and encouraging wives of pastors. In other words, I wouldn’t file it under your section of books in ecclesiology. This is a book telling the story of the wife of a man that was known as “The Pastor” – Richard Wurmbrand. The book belongs in your section of books in biographies. The book was not an easy read. It took me a few chapters to get used to her style of writing, and even then, I felt like some of the story-telling was laborious and not well reasoned. It read more like a journal than a narrative. I could see how the book may encourage someone who struggles in seeing the sufficiency of Christ when their friends and family are taken from them, but other than that, its not a book I was too excited about.

I feel sad reading about the suffering of these women in the prisons & working on the canal. I mean that i thoroughly admire & revere the courage of women like Sabina but at the same time i despair at the harsness & heartlessness of a system like Communism as practiced then. Will human beings ever improve & is it ever possible to create a heavenly kingdom on earth? The best that people can hope for is utopia in the spiritual realm or spiritual salvation. Is this world always going to be a valley of tears with pockets of idealism & people striving to live righteously. On the other hand the mass of humanity will continue to live in ignorance & fear. Has the new millenium brought any new hope that humanity can live in peace & love together as one family under God. I am usually an optimistic person but this saga of unrelenting cruelty made me despair about the relatively recent past that is repeated a some level in the present & will possibly continues into the future.

I traveled in Romania with our church distributing Bibles in 1993, so that country has long been in my heart. I found the church in Romania to be alive and strong, and its members knew so much that we, in our comfortable churches in America have never learned-how to really love and trust God. The people had little in the way of life's comforts in 1993- my middle-class life in America in comparison was very rich; the orphans I visited in a boys home haunted me until I adopted from Kazakh and now from Latvian orphanages, but I will never forget them. This book will rock you out of complacency, and cure you, at least temporarily, of feeling sorry for yourself or blaming God for not doing what you want Him to do for you. God bless the Romanian Christians. Jacqueline Smith

Sabina Wurmbrand tells her account of being imprisoned as an "insurgent" by the Russians in Romania, after the Russians "rescued" Romania from the Nazis, only to place Romania behind the Iron Curtain.

This is a shivering, stunning account of how socialism works - whether inside or outside of Communism. It's never "for the good of the people" - but for the good of corrupt, power-hunger tyrants and madmen who confiscate everything and never "redistribute the wealth."

This should be read by every American in the grips of wanting "change" from a president who espouses redistribution of wealth.

I could not stop reading this book and was highly impacted by her example of we are really to be like as Christians. In the USA, I feel we don't truly understand real faith and that Christ is enough. Our lifestyles and comfort take a lot of faith away from us. I was impressed by the examples of Christian living in this book, learned much, and had new desires sparked in me. Everyone needs to read this book.

Sabina Wurmbrand's book, The Pastor's Wife should be read by every believer. She suffered so much under the communists and Nazi's and never held on to any bitterness but only loved back like her Messiah. Knowing Sabina in her older years changed my life forever. It is because of her encouraging me to "take an orphan in" over and over again led us to adopt our daughter from China. Her strength and humility are woven throughout this book. I could not put this book down... I also encourage you to read this with "In God's Underground" written by her dear husband Pastor Richard Wurmbrand.
Mother to Estee Li Li

Sabina Wurmbrand is often overshadowed by her famous husband, Richard, who is a great man of God. This book is a tale of her suffering and perseverance in an atheist society. I read this book when I was sixteen, but did not fully appreciate it until I reread it in my twenties. She is a wonderful woman and model of the love and forgiveness of God. I would suggest this book to anybody, even non-Christians. She loved in impossible situations and was truly a woman after God's own heart.