Missionary Life Quotes

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

David Livingstone

Sick, Church, Missionary

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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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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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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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If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Charles Studd

Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

John Stott

Christian, Vision, Missionary

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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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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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Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

Amy Carmichael

Missionary, Chance, Life Is

"International Women’s Day: A New Paradigm of Respect" by Zach Hunter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2012.

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All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

David Brainerd

Dying, Desire, 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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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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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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God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

David Bryant

Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Facts

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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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Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

Hudson Taylor

Christian, Brother, Prayer

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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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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

"Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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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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God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

Hudson Taylor

Inspiring, Christian, Missionary

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Elisabeth Elliot

Giving, Missionary, Ecuador

"Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.

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When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". 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, Islands, Flames

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Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

William Carey

Christian, Spiritual, Religion

"The Missionary Herald". The Baptist Magazine, Volume 35, January 1843.

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The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

Henry Martyn

Christian, Jesus, Religion

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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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