Missionary Quotes - Page 8

• 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, Needs

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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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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Ministry

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

  David Brainerd

  Christian Inspirational, Moments, Glory

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

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• If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, White, Religion

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• A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

  Alan Hirsch

  Life, God, Christian

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• Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

  Kurt von Schleicher

  Second Chance, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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• Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

  David Platt

  Christian, Powerful, Inspiration

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• The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

  Oswald Chambers

  Winning, Doe, Lord

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• If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.

  Edward Lawlor

  Love Is, Motto, Missions

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• If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

  David Bosch

  Ignorance, Character, Christian Inspirational

  David J. Bosch (2006). “Witness To The World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective”, p.82, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

  Peter Forsyth

  Choices, Missions, Mission Trip

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

  Jim Elliot

  Men, Thinking, Looks

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• It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.

  Samuel Marsden

  Spiritual, Dark, Sin

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• Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, ʻI would... but ye would not.ʼ

  Isobel Miller Kuhn

  Thinking, Earth, Jerusalem

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• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

  C. S. Lewis

  Squares, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

  David Sills

  Christian, Doe, Want

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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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• The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Religion, Church, Doe

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Hands

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

  David Livingstone

  Sick, Church, Motto

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• There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Risk, Needs, Elements

  Elisabeth Elliot (1961). “The Savage My Kinsman”

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• It's hard to steer a parked car.

  Jim Elliot

  Car, Hard, Steers

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• The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

  Frank Laubach

  Growing Up, Hands, Unseen

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.9, SPCK

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