Missionary Quotes - Page 10

The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.

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

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

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

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.

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

Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

Lord, enable us to search our hearts and humble ourselves before Thee. Oh, for a closer walk with God, more faith, more sincerity, more earnestness, and more love. I must study more the Word of God. 'If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' The Master said so, and His words are true.

Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.