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Missionary Quotes

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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

"People mention the so-called 'sacrifice' I have made in devoting much of my life to Africa. It is certainly not a sacrifice - rather, it is an honor."
Authors on Missionary Quotes: David Livingstone Hudson Taylor William Carey John Piper David Brainerd David Sills Ezra Taft Benson Oswald J. Smith Charles Studd Adoniram Judson Thomas S. Monson K.P. Yohannan James Gilmour Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis Charles Spurgeon M. Russell Ballard Neal A. Maxwell Spencer W. Kimball Loren Cunningham Joseph Smith, Jr. Gordon B. Hinckley A. B. Simpson John Mott David Bryant L. Tom Perry Amy Carmichael Richard G. Scott David O. McKay Jim Elliot Alexander Murdoch Mackay John Wesley Oswald Chambers
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One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
John Piper

One of the great benefits of Twitter and Facebook will be to demonstrate on Judgment Day that inertia was not due to a lack of opportunity.
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If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you.Remember, it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or Samuel.
Gladys Aylward

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You have one business on earth – to save souls.
John Wesley

You have one mission in life – to rescue souls.
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God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
Hudson Taylor

God is not searching for individuals of extraordinary belief, He is looking for ordinary people to rely on His tremendous dependability.
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Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
David Livingstone

'Only Jesus can redeem the earth, but His salvation cannot be achieved in solitude.'
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How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.
Lottie Moon

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One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!
T.L. Osborn

'One Path: Christ! One Assignment: Proclamation of the Gospel!'
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I am immortal till my work is accomplished
David Livingstone

I shall persevere until my objectives are achieved.
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The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
David Livingstone

The most efficacious cure for an ailing church is to administer it a mission-focused regimen.
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To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
William Carey

To divine the Lord's intent, we require an unclosed Scripture and a scrutinized chart.
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I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.
William Carey

I shall dare to proceed... but keep in mind that you must remain steadfast.
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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

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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
John Stott

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We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.
Oswald J. Smith

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It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
David Brainerd

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Fear God and work hard.
David Livingstone

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It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.
Abul A'la Maududi

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The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
Neal A. Maxwell

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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
William Booth

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I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
David Brainerd

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God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
Hudson Taylor

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The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.
Oswald J. Smith

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If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
Adoniram Judson

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The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.
Jackie Pullinger

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You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.
William Carey

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The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Adoniram Judson

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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

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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

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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

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Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?
John Wesley

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The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
Amy Carmichael

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To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
William Carey

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If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.
Keith Green

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The depth of our repentance will determine the depth of our revival.
Frank Bartleman

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Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.
Loren Cunningham

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I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
Adoniram Judson

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What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?
Mary Slessor

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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken

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He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.
Graham Cooke

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True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
J. Oswald Sanders

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All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!
Jonathan Goforth

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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
William Cameron Townsend

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I love to live on the brink of eternity.
David Brainerd

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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
John Henrik Clarke

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No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
William Whiting Borden

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The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
E. Stanley Jones

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No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
Oswald J. Smith

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Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
Charles Spurgeon

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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.
Charles Spurgeon