Missions Quotes - Page 4

• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  Zoe Saldana

  Growing Up, Doctors, Barbie Dolls

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

  Rick Springfield

  Australia, Magic, Reason

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• The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

  Billy Tauzin

  New Life, Want, Given

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

  David Wilkerson

  Faith, Three, Ministry

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• It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

  David Brainerd

  Yield, Acting, Finishing

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.242

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• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Church

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

  Robert Pierce

  Heart, Broken, Christian Inspirational

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• The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

  Charles Studd

  Home, Light, Shining

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• Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Earth, Kingdoms

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• God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Design, Needs, Earth

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• Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Moving On, Taught Us, Experience

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• Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

  David Bryant

  Christian, Our World, Church

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Secret

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• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Music, Creativity

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Church, Tape

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• 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, Missionary

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• Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

  Francis Xavier

  Giving Up, Ambition, Christian Inspirational

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• When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

  Hudson Taylor

  Prayer, Moving, Men

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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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• If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

  David Livingstone

  Home, Missionary, World

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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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• This generation can only reach this generation.

  David Livingstone

  This Generation, Missionary, Generations

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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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