Missionary Quotes - Page 3

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

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

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.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

The mission of the church is missions.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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.

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!

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

...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.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

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

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

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

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

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.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

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

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

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

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

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