Missionary Quotations

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

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

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.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.

Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.

In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.

Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

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.

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

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

I am immortal till my work is accomplished

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

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

Devoted disciples of Jesus Christ always have been and always will be valiant missionaries. A missionary is a follower of Christ who testifies of Him as the Redeemer and proclaims the truths of His gospel.

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

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

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

Fear God and work hard.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

This generation can only reach this generation.

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

If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

Every member ... a missionary!

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

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

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

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

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

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

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others. ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach to be effective. We must not forget that the Lord Himself provided the Book of Mormon as His chief witness. The Book of Mormon is still our most powerful missionary tool. Let us use it.