Henry Martyn Quotes

• The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Jesus, Religion

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• I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Done, Reign

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• Let me burn out for God. After all,
  whatever God may appoint, prayer
  is the great thing. Oh, that I might
  be a man of prayer!

  Henry Martyn

  Prayer, Men, May

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• I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Inspiration, Grace

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• If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.

  Henry Martyn

  Dies, Ifs

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• I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• The power of gentleness is irresistible.

  Henry Martyn

  Irresistible, Gentleness

  Henry MARTYN (1819). “Memoir of the ---”, p.198

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• Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needy, a day when we learn to care for the victims, the fallen souls of civilization and advancement, a day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchment, without knowledge and prejudice, simple, hungry for knowing, tasting, and feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience.

  Henry Martyn

  Pain, Memories, Simple

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• I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

  Henry Martyn

  Christ

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• God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

  Henry Martyn

  Pleasure, Eternal

  Henry Martyn (1839). “Journals and letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.”, p.150

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• Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

  Henry Martyn

  Design, May, Should

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• Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

  Henry Martyn

  Beautiful, Art, Pride

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• It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Attachment, Earth

  Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.237

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• Now let me burn out for God.

  Henry Martyn

  Let Me, Revival Prayer, God Prayer

  Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.447

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• My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

  Henry Martyn

  Soul, Needs, Driven

  Henry Martyn (1839). “Journals and letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.”, p.97

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• The impious man, who sells his country's freedom
  Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own.
  His are her slaughters, her oppressions his;
  Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him,
  And blast the venal wretch.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Men, Guilt

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• The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

  Henry Martyn

  Honesty, Men, Want

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• How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

  Henry Martyn

  Magic, Cases, Accuracy

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