Missions Quotes

A compilation of over 250 missions/missionary quotes. Some are very convicting. For a quick jump to a last name, use the alphabetic menu below.

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Roland Allen

"We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them..."

"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love."

"We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods."

Anonymous

"Don’t send a lamp to the mission field that will not burn at home."

"God saves us for more than to escape Hell, He has saved us to share Christ worldwide."

"Without a vision the people perish; and without the people, the vision perishes."

"God alone has a world vision, we have a limited vision, the more we resemble Him, the greater our vision."

"Man’s greatest discovery is to discover the will of God. Man’s greatest achievement is to do the will of God."

"Giving is not a matter of can or cannot; it is a matter of will or will not."

"The worst crime of the desert is knowing where the water is and not telling."

"The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating."

"Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence."

"Missions is not the 'ministry of choice' for a few hyperactive Christians in the church."

"The average pastor views his church as a local church with a missions program; while he ought to realize that if he is in fact pastoring a church, it is to be a global church with a missions purpose."

"We are not over-loaded, we are under-burdened."

"As soon as we cease to bleed we cease to bless."

"World Missions is not an elective for the local church, it is a 'required course'."

"Not one person in the world needs Jesus Christ less than you do."

"When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen."
(Said of John Geddie)

"I couldn't say that my church is alive and I wouldn't want to call it dead. I guess it's just walking in its sleep!"

"Live simply so that others can simply live."

"God is not limited to a fixed income."

"We are willing to give to World Missions, if it doesn’t affect our lifestyle."

"Give to World Missions while your hand is warm."

"We can give less to missions this year, if the world is getting smaller."

"Do in your mission giving what will bring you joy at the Judgment Seat of Christ."

"If we have not enough in our religion to drive us to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home."

"You are either a missionary or a mission field."

"God does not put an age limit on fulfilling the Great Commission."

"Mission giving must be more than surplus giving — it must become both sacrificial and faith giving."

"God does not choose people who are qualified for His work, He does the choosing and when they are willing, He will qualify them."

"A missions conference is a church in a Business Meeting deciding the fate of the heathen."

Gladys Aylward

"... if God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you... remember it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or Samuel."

"I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China, I don't know who it was. It must have been a man, well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing, and God looked down and saw Gladys Aylward and God said - "Well, she's willing."

Richard Bach

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't."

T.J. Bach

"It is a tragedy when a man has no invisible means of support."

John the Baptist

"He must increase, but I must decrease."

Jack Baskin

"No sacrifice is too great for the King of kings and Lord of lords."

Carl Baugh

"Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service — He paid mine."

David Bennett

"Come and die, the Master calleth, come and die."

"The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, including those that are lost. It is the job of the church to explore the uttermost, to raise His banner, and to claim those lost souls of men for the Lord."

"Where there is God’s will, there is God’s way."

Rowland Bingham

"There is the constant invisible warfare that has to be waged against the powers of darkness... It is fashionable in the Western world to relegate belief in demons and devils to the realm of mythology, and when mentioned at all it is a matter of jest. But it is no jest in West Africa or any other mission field for that matter."

Andrew Bonar

"God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith."

William Booth

"Not called!" did you say? "Not heard the call," I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."

David Brainerd

"Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him."

"It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will."

"Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage pagans of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in Thy service, and to promote Thy kingdom."

"My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house."

"This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ."

"Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!"

"I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God."

"It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all."

"All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."

"I love to live on the brink of eternity."

"I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the world."

"Oh, that I might be a flaming fire in the service of the Lord. Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends of the earth... send me from all that is called earthly comfort; send me even to death itself if it be but in Thy service and to promote Thy Kingdom."

David Bryant

"Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them."

William Burns

"I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard."

William Carey

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God."

"I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last."

"You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour."

"...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest."

"I can plod; I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything."

"I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God."

"There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead - therefore we must go forward."

"Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine."
(Said to a young William Carey)

"All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient."

"To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map."

Amy Carmichael

"The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a "field full of wheat and tares."

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving."

"If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love."

Monono Cheney

"It's exhilarating to have a new adventure every day. And when I go to church or to a store, and find here and there a word I can really understand, I feel like shouting."

Clifford Clark

"All believers are not called to be foreign missionaries, but they should struggle with the possibility."

Alexander Duff

"The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical."

Dave Davidson

"If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death."

"World missions was on God's mind from the beginning."

"In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?"

Dick Eastman

"In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer."

Howard Edington

"People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South."

Jim Elliot

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

"Why do you need a voice when you have a verse."

J.L. Ewen

"As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both."

Ion Keith Falconer

"While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field."

"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light."

Peter Forsyth

"It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not."

Frederik Franson

"If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray; and if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray."

James Fraser

"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth."

Nick Frost

"Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel."

God

"Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."

"And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."

"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"

Jonathan Goforth

"All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!"

Keith Green

"All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ."

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!"

Nina Gunter

"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers."

Stuart Holden

"'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'"

Bob Hughes

"Why wait for a call when you have a command?"

Isaiah

"Here am I. Send me."

Jesus

"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness unto all nations, and then the end shall come."

"Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring."

"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

"As the Father hath sent Me, even so send I you."

Clarence Jones

"It's amazing what can be accomplished if you don't worry about who gets the credit."

"The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."

"When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door."

Jude

"Of some have compassion, making a difference: and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."

Adoniram Judson

"The prospects are bright as the promises of God."

"I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness..."

"Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

"We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed."

"If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering."

Helen Keller

"The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision."

Isobel Kuhn

"I believe that in each generation God has 'called' enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth... It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!"

Frank Laubach

"The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily."

David Livingstone

"People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay?"

"Fear God and work hard."

"Although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word."

"I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only as by giving or keeping of it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.

"Anywhere, provided it be forward--- farther still farther into the night."

"If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior."

"Death alone will put a stop to my effort!"

"In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!"

"Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give."

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"

"Sympathy is no substitute for action."

"Nothing earthly will make me give up in despair."

"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet."

Alexander Mackay

"My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa..."

"What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty."

"I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest."

"Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick."

Samuel Marsden

"Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization."

F.E. Marsh

"The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else."

Peter Marshall

"Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving."

Henry Martyn

"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become."

"I am immortal until God’s work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns."

Malla Moe

"What are we here for - to have a good time with the Christians or to save sinners?"

"There are many phases to a missionary's life. The least of these is to preach, so you don't have to look for those who are especially gifted or learned to become missionaries. Kindness is the big thing."

Robert Moffat

"Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ ... I have not repented in becoming a missionary, and, should I die in the march and never enter the field of battle, all would be well."

"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been."

Helen Montgomery

"Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content."

Lottie Moon

"I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been."

Pat Morley

"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small."

Robert Morrison

"I yesterday received your very welcome letter. It is but the second that I have received, after having written at least two hundred."

"Now Mr. Morrison do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the Chinese Empire?"
"No sir, but I expect that God will."

John Mott

"It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions."

"No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation."

Andrew Murray

"We have a God who delights in impossibilities."

Gordon Olson

"If our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged."

George Otis

"Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn’t."

"Far away is far away only if you don’t go there."

"God almost never calls His people to a fair fight."

John Paton

"I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life."

"This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!"

"Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord."

"I confess to you that if I can but live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether my body is eaten by cannibals or by worms."

"At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself."

Paul

"So have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation..."

"I am ready to preach the gospel..."

"For Christ sent me... to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect."

"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!"

"To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand."

David Penman

"No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people."

Bob Pierce

"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart."

Arthur Pierson

"If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together."

John Piper

"God... has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose."

"Go, send, or disobey."

"No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ."

"Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak."

Leonard Ravenhill

"Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians."

"Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions."

Nate Saint

"And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives, and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."

Robert Savage

"The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland."

Kurt von Schleicher

"Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop."

Robert Shannon

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is - where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge."

Clayton Shumpert

"All God wants is all you’ve got! He can handle it better than you can."

"It is doubtful that you’ll grow in faith if you’re stingy with God."

A.B. Simpson

"Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?"

"Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go."

Sadhu Sundar Singh

"From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross."

Mary Slessor

"Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service — praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom."

"What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?"

"Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!"

Oswald Smith

"We talk of the second coming; half the world has never heard of the first."

"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist."

"The church that does not evangelize will fossilize."

"Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one."

"God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God."

"You must go or send a substitute."

"If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God."

"You can't take it [money] with you but you can send it on ahead."

David Smithers

"God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth."

Robert Speer

"Prepare for the worst; expect the best, and take what comes."

"There is nothing in the world or the Church - except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility."

"With many of us it is not a missionary call at all that we are looking for; it is a shove. There are a great many of us who would never hear a call if it came."

Charles Spurgeon

Answering a student's question, "Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?" thus, "It is more a question with me whether we who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved."

"It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world."

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for."

"If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king."

Mike Stachura

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."

James Stewart

"The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian."

John Stott

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice."

C.T. Studd

"I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me."

"I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different."

"Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!"

"My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it."

"...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus."

"Some wish to live within the sound of Church or Chapel bell; I want to run a Rescue Shop within a yard of hell."

"True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads."

"Had I cared for the comments of the people, I should never have become a missionary..."

"A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone."

"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and mission societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves."

"Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do."

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

"Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done."

"For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours."

J.K. Studd

"Are you seeking great things for yourself? Seek them not! Seek first the Kingdom of God!"

Hudson Taylor

"If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life."

"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all."

"God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands."

"Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies."

"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him."

"...we are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. Bring it to the front; speak the Truth; live the Truth. We tell this people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our Home is above — that all these things are transitory — does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives! The life of the Apostle was thoroughly consistent. Every one saw that he was a stranger and a sojourner; no one could feel that his home was here; all saw that it was up there."

"Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees."

"Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us."

"It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home."

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me."

"When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone."

"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him."

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed."

"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China."

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him."

"Must you go to China? How much nicer it would be to stay here and serve the Lord at home!"
(J. Hudson Taylor's new ex-girlfriend)

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God; first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done."

"Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many."

Mendell Taylor

"The church must send or the church will end."

Ray Thompson

"There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world."

Indian to Cam Townsend

"Why doesn't your God speak my language?"

William Townsend

"The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."

"Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less."

A.W. Tozer

"Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them."

George Verwer

"We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives."

John Vockler

"For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel."

John Wesley

"Not how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?"

George Whitefield

"Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ."

Elderly Widow

"The heart of God is too grieved, the path of man is too dark, the cross of Christ is too glorious, for me to quit now."

Francis Xavier

"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ."

K.P. Yohannan

"A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story."

"Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?"

Count Zinzindorf

"I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ."

Samuel Zwemer

"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer."

"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians."

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