Great Missionary Quotes - Page 2

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Elisabeth Elliot

Giving, Missionary, Ecuador

"Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.

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Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

William Carey

Christian, Spiritual, Religion

"The Missionary Herald". The Baptist Magazine, Volume 35, January 1843.

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And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

Nate Saint

God, Christian, Years

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Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Studd

Running, Church Bells, Religion

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If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

Hudson Taylor

Christian, Prayer, Giving

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I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Ion Keith-Falconer

Christian, Prayer, Light

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

Stuart Holden

Missionary, Christ, Missions

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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

John Piper

Passion, Names, People

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Funny, Women

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If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

Self, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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

Pat Morley

Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Motto

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The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Corrie Ten Boom

God, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

Amy Carmichael

Christian, Heart, Luxury

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I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

Country, Passion, Home

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To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

William Carey

Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Needs

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I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

Isobel Miller Kuhn

Believe, Men, Christian Inspirational

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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?

William Whiting Borden

Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Carl F. H. Henry

God, Christian, Religious

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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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Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

Hudson Taylor

Christian, Missionary, Lord

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Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

Mary Slessor

Prayer, Lying, Hands

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

David Livingstone

Son, Missionary, Missions

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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.

Hudson Taylor

Faithful, Missionary, Trials

J. Hudson Taylor (2015). “A Retrospect: The Story Behind My Zeal for Missions”, p.15, Aneko Press

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As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha

Nate Saint

Crush, Christian, Night

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