Inspirational Missionary Quotes

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

  Robert Pierce

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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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 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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• 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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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Christian Inspirational, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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

  David Livingstone

  Sick, Church, 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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• 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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• Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

  John Piper

  Christian, Goal, Church

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.35, Baker Academic

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• The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.

  F. E. Marsh

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Motto

  F. E. Marsh (1987). “1000 Bible Study Outlines”, p.30, Kregel Academic

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• Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Christian, Inspiration

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• It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  God, Christian, Religious

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• We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Ministry

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