Missionary Life Quotes - Page 2

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

  Hudson Taylor

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

  Gladys Aylward

  Men, Choices, Done

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• Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Believe, Judgement

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• All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

  Jonathan Goforth

  Missionary, Christianity, Resources

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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 Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Discovery, Missionary

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• All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

  Keith Green

  Christian Inspirational, Judgement, Missionary

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• We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

  George Verwer

  Missionary, Needs, Christianity

  George Verwer (1979). “Hunger for reality”, Authentic Media

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• Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Men, Joy

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• Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Dog, Missionary

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Japan, Church

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• Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

  David Livingstone

  Effort, Missionary, Missions

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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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• Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Men, Heaven

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• The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.

  Thomas Hale

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

  Thomas Hale (1995). “On Being a Missionary”, p.29, William Carey Library

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