Missionary Quotes

Great mission lies ahead of us.

Sacrifice, sacrifice.

I wish you believe, not for myprofit, but for yours. I daily pray the true God give you light, that you may believe. Whether you will ever believe in tis world I do not know, but when you die I know you will believe what I now say. You will then appear before God you now deny. - Adorinam Judson to his Burman teacher.

May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.

Every day is predetermined by God.

Montrose leaned forward. “Jacob, what's wrong with you? Why would you want to do this? What kind of husband . . . what kind of man are you?”“I don't know.” Jacob's voice was a whisper. “But before I pledged myself to Annie, I pledged myself to God.”“I hope you know what you're doing.” Montrose glanced back towards the kitchen. In their silence, they heard Annie's low sobs. “I hope it's worth it.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

Generosity is an act of love.

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.

We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.

You must put all your heart into everything you do.

It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!

Words are drops of blood, from my heart.

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.

To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God's law. This is why Christians have a choice to make, either to trade in their loyalty to God for freedom from persecution, or to remain true to Christ and consequently run the risk of persecution.

To know God and to make Him known.

How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity!

May the Spirit of God empower you with divine strength to accomplish your mission on earth.

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

I am mission and must complete it.

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

He who want to be great must first be a servant.

Work with enthusiasm.

I devote my life in service of humanity.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

The Lord’s gracious hand is upon us.We will begin the good work.

Toyohiko Kagawa, famed for his ministry to slum-dwellers, paid tribute to all three of Japan's major religious traditions. 'I am grateful for Shinto, for Buddhism, and for Confucianism,' he wrote. To Shinto he attributed his spirit of reverence; to Buddhism, his craving for transcendent values, including compassion and selflessness; to Confucianism, his efforts to follow the golden mean of humaneness and harmony in society. Kagawa saw Christ in the priestly robes of all these religions.

I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. I made a very conscious act of commitment and my only desire was to be kept in purity and holiness throughout the whole time of my earthly pilgrimage. I didn't choose Christ's narrow path for the riches, fame, or comfortable life it would bring, for I had experienced several times in my family before I became a Christian that true discipleship would mean a life of persecution.

The sacred path leads to destiny destination.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

Life is all we have, the grace of service to mankind.

Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.

For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

We ought to love, encourage and support each other.

May we reach out to one another in love, in faith and in kindness.

The beauty of life is sharing life.

We live life not only for ourselves but for others.

Serve one another with great humility.

Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

Always work enthusiastically.

For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.

O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.

Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.

There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility. “Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” “Where better to be kidnapped and sold into slavery, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” with a discernible sneer.

We can serve humanity with our divine passions and gifted skills.

The greatest conduct is love in action.

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed – in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

Jacob, what's wrong with you? Why would you want to do this? What kind of husband . . . what kind of man are you?”“I don't know.” Jacob's voice was a whisper. “But before I pledged myself to Annie, I pledged myself to God.”“I hope you know what you're doing.” Montrose glanced back towards the kitchen. In their silence, they heard Annie's low sobs. “I hope it's worth it.

If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).