Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.
The mission of the church is missions.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
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