Missionary Quotes - Page 7

• ...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

  James Gilmour

  Home, Reason Why, Should

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Heart, Deliverance, My Heart

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• I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Home, White, Fields

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• Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.

  Samuel Marsden

  Civilization, Together, Christianity

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• Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

  Helen Barrett Montgomery

  Ideas, Bending, Stubborn

  "Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions".

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• On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are laced, and shirts, socks, and ties are bought in quantity. I met one father who said to me, 'Brother Monson, I want you to meet my son.' Pride popped his buttons; the cost of the clothing emptied his wallet; love filled his heart. Tears filled my eyes when I noticed that his [the father's] suit was old, his shoes well worn; but he felt no deprivation. The glow on his face was a memory to cherish.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Brother, Memories, Father

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• This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

  James Gilmour

  Choices, Matter, Reason

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• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Wall, Sea

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• Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

  Charles Studd

  Loneliness, Heart, Wish

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• ...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Mean, Winning

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• I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

  David Livingstone

  Children, Father, Secret

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.

  L. Tom Perry

  Army, Needs, Royal

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• The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

  Jackie Pullinger

  News, Hearing, Poor

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• The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Heart, Years

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• If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

  David Livingstone

  Gratitude, Noble, Calling

  "Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick".

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• Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

  L. Tom Perry

  Bars, Standards, Certain

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• I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

  David Livingstone

  Office, Missions, Rejoice

  David Livingstone, Adam Sedgwick (1860). “Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter”, p.167

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• To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

  James Gilmour

  Soul, Chinese, Englishmen

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.

  John Gibson Paton

  Glimpse, Clubs, Moments

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• This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Real, Entering

  John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1891). “John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides”

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• Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

  David Livingstone

  Purpose, Missions, Given

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• It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

  David Livingstone

  Views, Years, Sinister

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• A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

  Charles Studd

  Bones, Good Things, Sleeves

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Giving, Ecuador, Gains

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

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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, Needs

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