Great Missionary Quotes - Page 2

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

  Peter Forsyth

  Choices, Missionary, Missions

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• If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

  Fredrik Franson

  Prayer, People, Sick

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• Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

  Oswald Chambers

  Bible, Baptism, Ecumenism

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.137, Discovery House

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• Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

  Charles Studd

  Running, Church Bells, Religion

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• 'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'

  Stuart Holden

  Missionary, Christ, Missions

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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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• 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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• If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

  Pat Morley

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Motto

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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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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

  John Piper

  Passion, Names, People

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

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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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• 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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• Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Heart, Luxury

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

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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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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• Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  God, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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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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• If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

  William Whiting Borden

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Country, Passion, Home

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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 great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Country, Passion

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• The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

  Oswald J. Smith

  Beautiful, Christian, Church

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• Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

  Mary Slessor

  Prayer, Lying, Hands

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• God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

  David Livingstone

  Son, Missionary, Missions

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• All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

  Keith Green

  Christian Inspirational, Judgement, Missionary

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