Missions Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Degrees

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• For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

  Edward Snowden

  Giving, Trying, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

  Charles Garfield

  Trying, Would Be, Way

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• Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

  David Livingstone

  Effort, Missionary, Missionary Life

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• Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Return, I Can

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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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• 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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• We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

  John Stott

  Light, Religion, World

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• The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

  Vance Havner

  Soul, Missionary, Christ

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• To know God and to make Him known.

  Loren Cunningham

  Missionary, Motto, Knowing God

  Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.157, YWAM Publishing

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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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• While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

  William Booth

  Fighting, Dark, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, World, Christ

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• Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

  William Booth

  Soul, Missionary, Motto

  Salvation Army, William Booth (1907). “Selected Papers on the Social Work of the Salvation Army”

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• God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

  David Livingstone

  Son, Missionary, Motto

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• God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

  John Piper

  Names, Missionary, Ministry

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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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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• While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

  William Booth

  Girl, Children, Fighting

  "Booth the Beloved". Book by J. Evan Smith (pp. 122-124), 1949.

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

  K.P. Yohannan

  Missionary, Motto, Preoccupation

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

  Oswald J. Smith

  Missionary, Motto, Should

  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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• Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

  William Booth

  Feet, Missionary, Motto

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• I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

  Kathleen Turner

  Thinking, Sound, Purpose

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