Missionary Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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 am a missionary, heart and soul.

  David Livingstone

  Heart, Soul, Heart And Soul

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

  Lottie Moon

  Lonely, Praying, Christianity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What can we do to win these men to Christ?

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Winning, Men, Christ

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• Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

  Amy Carmichael

  Chance, Life Is, Dies

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

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• Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

  Oswald J. Smith

  Motto, Should, Missions

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

  Adoniram Judson

  Blessed, Boston, Rooms

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• Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Motto, Missions, Preoccupation

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• I add my personal witness: Our missionaries are not salesmen with wares to peddle; rather, they are servants of the Most High God, with testimonies to bear, truths to teach, and souls to save. Each missionary who goes forth in response to a sacred call becomes a servant of the Lord whose work this truly is. Do not fear, young men, for He will be with you. He never fails. He has promised: "I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up"

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Church, Tasks, World

  Oswald J. Smith (1962). “The Story of My Life: And the Peoples Church”

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