Missionary Quotes - Page 4

• You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.

  William Carey

  Drs, Gone, Speak

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• I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Giving, Joy

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• If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

  Mary Slessor

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

  David Livingstone

  Wish To Die, Missions, Hope To Live

  David Livingstone (1959). “Family Letters, 1841-1856”

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• I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

  Charles Studd

  Simple, Different, Pleasure

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• If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.

  David Sills

  Perfect, Calling, Timing

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• I am a missionary, heart and soul.

  David Livingstone

  Heart, Soul, Heart And Soul

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• The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

  Isabella Thoburn

  Responsibility, Language, Reason

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• True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

  Charles Studd

  Giving, Missions, True Religion

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• I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

  Lottie Moon

  Lonely, Praying, Christianity

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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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• If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

  Keith Green

  Motto, Missions, Definite

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• The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

  Hudson Taylor

  Mean, Grace, Harvest

  J. Hudson Taylor (2015). “A Retrospect: The Story Behind My Zeal for Missions”, p.46, Aneko Press

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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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• I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

  James Gilmour

  Should, Missions, Workers

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• Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

  David Livingstone

  Path, Christ, Slave

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• Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

  George Wilson

  Home, Wonder, Christ

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• Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

  J. I. Packer

  Commitment, Biblical, Simple

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• Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Church, Saint

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• It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Jesus, Average

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• In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Order, Risk, Plant

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.17, Gospel For Asia Books

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• I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

  Jeff Bezos

  Meaningful, Believe, Entrepreneur

  "Jeff Bezos's mission: Compelling small publishers to think big". Interview with Jp Mangalindan, fortune.com. June 29, 2010.

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• He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

  David Livingstone

  Should Have, Grace, Steps

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• Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

  Charles Studd

  Nails, Christ, Missions

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• God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Church, Movement

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church”, p.55, David C Cook

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