Christian Missionary Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Discovery, Missionary

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

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

  David Bryant

  Christian, Our World, Church

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• 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.

  Robbie Savage

  Christian, Prayer, Missionary

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• When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

  Hudson Taylor

  Prayer, Moving, Men

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• Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Believe, Godly

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• God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

  Hudson Taylor

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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• All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

  William Carey

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Christianity

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

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Missionary, World

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

  William Cameron Townsend

  Mother, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

  Francis Xavier

  Giving Up, Ambition, Christian Inspirational

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• A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Flames, Groups

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• Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Believe, Judgement

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• I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

  Gladys Aylward

  Men, Choices, Done

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Japan, Church

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

  David Bryant

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Facts

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• Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lying, Church

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

  Lottie Moon

  Lonely, Missionary, Praying

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• I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Men, Missionary, Christianity

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• I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Religious, Years

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• At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Heart, Wine

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Men, Lazy

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• Plan for the worst, expect the best.

  David Gemmell

  Missionary, Missions, Worst

  "The Swords of Night and Day". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 19, 2004.

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

  George Verwer

  Missionary, Needs, Christianity

  George Verwer (1979). “Hunger for reality”, Authentic Media

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