Great Missionary Quotes - Page 3

• The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

  Oswald J. Smith

  Beautiful, Christian, Church

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• The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Country, Passion

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• All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

  Keith Green

  Christian Inspirational, Judgement, Missionary

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• One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

  John Piper

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Use

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• If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

  David Livingstone

  Wisdom, Kings, Inspiration

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

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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  We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Vision, Missionary

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• If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

  Hudson Taylor

  Wisdom, Christian Inspirational, Religion

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• The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

  David Livingstone

  Sick, Church, Missionary

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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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• God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

  John Piper

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Delight

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.39, Baker Academic

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• God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

  John Piper

  Names, Missionary, Ministry

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

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• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". 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, Islands, Flames

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• Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian, Biblical, Religion

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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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• We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Our World, People

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.13, Zondervan

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• A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• 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.

  Amanda Smith

  Christian, Missionary, Missions

  Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.270, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

  Keith Green

  Christian, Soul, This Generation

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• Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Prayer, Moving

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• No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian, Missionary, Evangelism

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

  Phineas F. Bresee

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

  James Stuart Stewart

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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