Missionary Quotes - Page 2

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.

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.

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.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

The depth of our repentance will determine the depth of our revival.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

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.

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

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.

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

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

It's hard to steer a parked car.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

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.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.