Inspirational Missionary Quotes

• Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Ministry, Missionary

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• 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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• If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

  Nina Gunter

  Christian, Prayer, 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 talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Ministry

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

  Robert Pierce

  Heart, Broken, Christian Inspirational

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

  Carl F. H. Henry

  God, Christian, Religious

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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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• Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Dog, Missionary

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• Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

  David Brainerd

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Moments

  David BRAINERD (1826). “Life and Journal of the Rev. David Brainerd ... By Jonathan Edwards”, p.27

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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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• Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

  William Carey

  Missionary, Lord, Missions

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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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• All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

  Keith Green

  Christian Inspirational, Judgement, Missionary

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• The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

  William Chalmers Burns

  Heart, Missionary, Longing

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

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Christian Inspirational, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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