Missionary Life Quotes

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

David Livingstone

Sick, Church, Missionary

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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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I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Ion Keith-Falconer

Christian, Prayer, Light

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If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Charles Studd

Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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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 I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

Hudson Taylor

Christian, Prayer, Giving

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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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The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

Amy Carmichael

Christian, Religion, Missionary

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I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

David Brainerd

Soul, Missionary, Hardship

David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.123

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Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Studd

Christian, Prayer, People

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If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

Fredrik Franson

Prayer, People, Sick

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All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

William Carey

Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Christianity

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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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This generation can only reach this generation.

David Livingstone

This Generation, Missionary, Generations

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

Jim Elliot

Jesus, Long, Like You

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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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I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

Country, Passion, Home

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Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

Amy Carmichael

Missionary, Chance, Life Is

"International Women’s Day: A New Paradigm of Respect" by Zach Hunter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2012.

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Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Studd

Running, Church Bells, Religion

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A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

K.P. Yohannan

Fall, Flames, Groups

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All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

David Brainerd

Dying, Desire, Missionary

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When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

K.P. Yohannan

Fall, Islands, Flames

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When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Hudson Taylor

Prayer, Moving, Men

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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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