Missions Quotes - Page 12

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

  A. B. Simpson

  Believe, Men, Missionary

  A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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

  Stewart Udall

  Uranium Mining, Energy, Environment

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• Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

  Salvador Dali

  Men, Needs, Earth

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• ... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, School, College

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• In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.

  Robert E. Webber

  Teaching, Years, Church

  Robert E. Webber, Robert Webber (1996). “Learning to Worship with All Your Heart: A Study in the Biblical Foundations of Christian Worship”, Hendrickson Pub

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• It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

  India.Arie

  Healing, Joy, Mind

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Loneliness, Home, Long

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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