Missions In Life Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Jesus, Light

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• It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

  David Livingstone

  Attachment, Desire, Missionary

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• I love to live on the brink of eternity.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Christianity, Eternity

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.49

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Debt

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

  Jim Elliot

  Light, May, Sticks

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• He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

  Graham Cooke

  Powerful, People, Missionary

  Graham Cooke (2011). “A Divine Confrontation”, p.1, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Appreciation, Feet, Evil

  "They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives that Reveal a Touch of Eternity".

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• As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Prayer, Long

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.364, Cambridge University Press

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• We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Men, Lazy

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• A tiny group of 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, Flames, Groups

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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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• While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Lying, Burden Of Proof, Darkness

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• The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

  Robbie Savage

  Christian, Prayer, Missionary

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

  William Booth

  Heart, Fire, Humanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.54, Discovery House

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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 mission of the church is missions.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian Inspirational, Church, Missionary

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