Missions Quotes

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  We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Vision, Missionary

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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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• Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

  John Piper

  Christian, Goal, Church

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.35, Baker Academic

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  Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

  Billy Graham

  Missionary, Christ, Died

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• A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Missionary, Fields, Persons

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.58, Zondervan

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• To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal

  Abdul Kalam

  Motivational, Goal, Succeed

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.89, Universities Press

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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Christian Inspirational, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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• The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

  David Livingstone

  Sick, Church, Missionary

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• The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  God, Christian, Religious

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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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• God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

  William Carey

  Missionary, Lord, Stills

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• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

  Stewart Udall

  Uranium Mining, Energy, Environment

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• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Earth

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• Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

  Vannevar Bush

  Simple, Men, Understanding

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.

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• Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, Perfect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

  Isobel Miller Kuhn

  Believe, Men, Christian Inspirational

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• If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Self, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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• If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

  William Whiting Borden

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

  Pat Morley

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Motto

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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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• It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Religion, Church, Doe

  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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