Missionary Quotes - Page 23

• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though I've lost whatever Christian faith was drummed into me as a child, I still maintain very good relationship with all the various religions.

  Wole Soyinka

  Christian, Children, Good Relationship

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Book, Eye

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• If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

  Samuel Wilberforce

  Book, Hymns, Band

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• music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Effort, Heaven

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Use

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• If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

  John Taylor

  Calling, Done, Might

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• In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

  Ray Comfort

  Country, Home, Loss

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• The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Careers, Study

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• I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

  Steve Young

  Village

  Source: mormontruthinterviews.blogspot.com

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• I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

  Tony Campolo

  Country, Clever, Home

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

  John Piper

  Doe, Magnificence, Able

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

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• Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

  John Piper

  Passion, Weak, Missions

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

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• Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

  Hudson Taylor

  Home, Wife, Makers

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• God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Common, Faithfulness

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• There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

  John Piper

  Live Life, Sacrifice, America

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• Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

  Hudson Taylor

  Eye, Done, Way

  Mrs. Howard Taylor, James Hudson Taylor (1893). “The Story of the China Inland Mission”

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• God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Hands, Missions

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• If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

  Hudson Taylor

  Running, Waiting, Risk

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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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• Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

  John Piper

  Life Is Precious, Today, Waste

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.34, Multnomah

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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, Delight, Motto

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

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• Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.

  David E. Sorensen

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• Untold millions are still untold.

  John Wesley

  Motto, Missions, Stills

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• A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

  John Piper

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Theology

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