Missionary Quotes - Page 8

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

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.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'

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.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

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

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

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.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

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

It's better to obey God rather than men.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?