Missionary quotes
382 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go."
"Christ not only died for all: He died for each."
"I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been."
"Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached"
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"Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?"
"It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause."
"Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel."
"All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ."
"God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know."
"I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them."
"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."
"Why wait for a call when you have a command?"
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
"The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church."
"Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved."
"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."
"It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime."
"What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality."
"Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us"
"None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
"I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point."
"We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods."
"I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge."
"You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado."
