Missions In Life Quotes

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  Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

  William Carey

  Christian, Spiritual, Religion

  "The Missionary Herald". The Baptist Magazine, Volume 35, January 1843.

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• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

  Maya Angelou

  Passion, Will To Survive, Aim Of Life

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

  Francis Xavier

  Giving Up, Ambition, Christian Inspirational

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• Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

  David Bryant

  Christian, Our World, Church

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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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• If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

  Nina Gunter

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian, Biblical, Religion

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• The mission of the church is missions.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian Inspirational, Church, Missionary

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• God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

  Hudson Taylor

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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• I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Long, Like You

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• Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Criminals, Lax

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• I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Live Life, Self, Giving

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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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• I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

  George H. Miley

  Years, Ideas, People

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• Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.

  John Gibson Paton

  Christian, Moving, Decision

  John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1904). “The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks: Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals. Rearranged and Edited by James Paton”

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Missionary

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Prayer, Long

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.364, Cambridge University Press

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• If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Missionary, Christianity

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• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Appreciation, Feet, Evil

  "They Found the Secret: Twenty Transformed Lives that Reveal a Touch of Eternity".

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• He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

  Graham Cooke

  Powerful, People, Missionary

  Graham Cooke (2011). “A Divine Confrontation”, p.1, Destiny Image Publishers

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Debt

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

  David Brainerd

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Moments

  David BRAINERD (1826). “Life and Journal of the Rev. David Brainerd ... By Jonathan Edwards”, p.27

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• No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian, Missionary, Evangelism

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• To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

  William Carey

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Needs

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