Missionary Quotes

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

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.

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.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

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

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

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

God provides the men and women needed for each generation.

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

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.

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.

Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.

Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

The Church must send or the church will end.

God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.

You're either a missionary or a mission field.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.

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.

The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.