Missionary Quotes - Page 22

• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

  Vance Havner

  Adversity, Medicine, People

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Thankfulness, Lord

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• You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

  Steven C. Hawthorne

  Purpose, Christianity, Come Up

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• I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. What came through to them was dogmatism and moralism, and it rubbed them the wrong way.

  Huston Smith

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• Far away is far away only if you don't go there.

  George Otis

  Far Away, Ifs

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• Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Dog, Today

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• God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.

  George Otis

  Fighting, People, Fairs

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• That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Olaf, Barbarians, Strange

  1930 Last and First Men, ch.3.

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• Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Bishops, Truth Is

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• Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Slave Ships, Light, Sharks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.530, Library of America

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• In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

  Harold B. Lee

  Character, Order, Practice

  Harold B. Lee (1973). “Youth & the church”

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• The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.

  Watchman Nee

  Book, Men, Religion

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.89, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Selfless, Way

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• Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

  David Kim

  Heart, Fields, Christ

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• Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation

  David Shibley

  Christian, Our Generation, Generations

  David Shibley (2001). “The Missions Addiction”, p.219, Charisma Media

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• The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

  Darrin Patrick

  Years, Two, Keys

  Matt Carter, Darrin Patrick (2011). “For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, African Tribes, Might

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157, 1957.

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• THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Religious, Vigor

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• The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

  Helen Keller

  Sight, Vision, Tragedy

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

  David Penman

  Encouragement, People, Church

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• Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

  A. B. Simpson

  Home, Can Do, Bounds

  A.B. Simpson (2010). “The Christ of the Forty Days: Experiencing the Risen, Triumphant Christ”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Christ, Thousand

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• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Book, Eye

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• It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

  Andy Stanley

  Grief, People

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