Missionary famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
-- A. B. Simpson -
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.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
-- A. B. Simpson -
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
-- A. B. Simpson -
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
-- Adoniram Judson -
We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
-- Adoniram Judson -
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...
-- Adoniram Judson -
My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa...
-- Alexander Murdoch Mackay -
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.
-- Alexander Murdoch Mackay -
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
-- Amy Carmichael -
It's better to obey God rather than men.
-- Andrew van der Bijl -
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
-- Annie Dillard -
An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
-- Anthony Mary Claret -
Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
-- Arthur Judson -
Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.
-- Arthur Tappan Pierson -
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
-- Billy Graham -
All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
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.
-- Carl Baugh -
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
-- Carl F. H. Henry -
If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.
-- Carl Whitaker -
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
-- Charles Studd -
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.
-- Charles Studd -
A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.
-- Charles Studd -
My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
-- Charles Studd -
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.
-- Charles Studd -
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
-- Charles Studd -
For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
-- Charles Studd -
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
-- Charles Studd -
When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.
-- Clarence Benjamin Jones -
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
-- Craig Claiborne -
I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.
-- Daniel Everett -
God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.
-- Daniel Palmer -
Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
-- David Bosch -
Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
-- David Bosch -
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
-- David Brainerd -
The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.
-- David Kim -
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
-- David Kim -
I am immortal till my work is accomplished
-- David Livingstone -
This generation can only reach this generation.
-- David Livingstone -
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
-- David Livingstone -
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
-- David Livingstone -
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
-- David Livingstone -
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
-- David Livingstone -
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.
-- David Livingstone -
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
-- David Livingstone -
God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.
-- David Livingstone -
If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
-- David Livingstone -
I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
-- David Livingstone -
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
-- David Livingstone -
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
-- David Livingstone -
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
-- David Livingstone -
He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.
-- David Livingstone -
Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation
-- David Shibley -
Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.
-- David Sills -
God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.
-- David Sills -
Today, 112 years later, 94% of the people in the world recognize the Coca-Cola logo and product. In 112 years, we can reach the world for profit's sake, but we cannot do it for the glory of God in 2,000 years.
-- David Sills -
If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.
-- David Sills -
God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.
-- David Sills -
What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.
-- David Sills -
Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
-- David Sills -
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
-- Deborah Cox -
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.
-- Diane Ladd -
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
-- Donal Logue -
The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.
-- Ed Pinegar -
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.
-- Ed Stetzer -
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
-- Edward Abbey -
If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.
-- Edward Lawlor -
The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.
-- Ellen G. White -
Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.
-- ElRay L. Christiansen -
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
-- Emo Philips -
The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
-- F. E. Marsh -
I want to be where there are out and out pagans.
-- Francis Xavier -
If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
-- G. Campbell Morgan -
God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.
-- George Otis -
Far away is far away only if you don't go there.
-- George Otis -
Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.
-- George Whitefield -
Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?
-- George Wilson -
He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.
-- Graham Cooke -
Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
-- H. Burke Peterson -
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
-- H. G. Wells -
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
If you are called as a missionary—a “sent-out oneâ€â€”then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God’s love—a love that never dies—through you.
-- Heidi Baker -
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
-- Henry Martyn -
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
-- Herman Melville -
Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth
-- Howard W. Hunter -
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
-- Hudson Taylor -
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
-- Hudson Taylor -
Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.
-- Hugh Nibley -
I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.
-- Ignatius of Antioch
