Missionary Quotes

“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
― Hudson Taylor

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

“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
― David Livingstone

“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.”
― Hudson Taylor

“To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

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

“Untold millions are still untold.”
― John Wesley

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

“We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.”
― John H. Groberg

“The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.”
― David Livingstone

“Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.”
― David Livingstone

“God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.”
― David Livingstone

“This generation can only reach this generation.”
― David Livingstone

“My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.”
― Stefne Miller, Collision

“There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one--brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter-- eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world, where one could enjoy it perpetually.”
― Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson

“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.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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.”
― V.S. Carnes

“Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours to civilize civilization and Christianize Christendom?”
― Herman Melville, White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War

“When I say, ‘I’m on a fucking mission’, what I mean is that—No matter how you haters ride me, I’m gonna get on top and I’m never gonna stop until I impregnate the world with my ideas!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“EVERY TRUE CHRISTIAN IS A SOLDIER—of Christ—a hero "par excellence!" Braver than the bravest—scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

THE OTHERWISE CHRISTIAN IS A CHOCOLATE CHRISTIAN! Dissolving in water and melting at the smell of fire.”
― C.T. Studd, The Chocolate Soldier: Enriched edition. Or, Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity

“Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.”
― CT Studd

“If you don't desire to meet the Devil during the day, meet Jesus before dawn.”
― CT Studd

“[S]lowly, unwillingly, I began to see what God had been trying to teach me. He hadn't called me, really, to be a missionary... He had called me to Himself, to be like His Son, Jesus Christ. And He wanted me to follow Him to South America. Now." -”
― Bruce Olson, Bruchko

“Like a banana, the missionary is germinated and grows in the protected home environment. Finally ties with the mother plant are cut and the "green" recruit is transplanted to a foreign hsore. There he slowly ripens, until at the end of a four-year term he is considered ripe, thus earning the ominous title: "senior missionary".”
― Larry Dinkins, Help! My Halo is Slipping: The Saga of a First-Term Missionary

“Like a banana, the missionary is germinated and grows in the protected home environment. Finally ties with the mother plant are cut and the "green" recruit is transplanted to a foreign shore. There he slowly ripens, until at the end of a four-year term he is considered ripe, thus earning the ominous title: "senior missionary".”
― Larry Dinkins

“We are not commissioned to lead comfortable lives but to follow the example of our Lord. May each Lord’s Day gathering be a renewing not only of our baptismal vow but a renewing of our missionary call by the Son of God to be His ambassadors even to the ends of the earth.”
― St. Thomas Church, An Ancient Worship Movement

“The Samaritan woman was the first person Jesus revealed Himself to on His mission. She has the longest recorded dialogue with Jesus of anyone. She was the first missionary before the resurrection. And Mary was the first missionary after the resurrection. Both women. Intentionally sought out by God. Specifically set aside to go and tell.”
― Amy Seiffert, Your Name Is Daughter: What the Unsung Women of the Bible Teach Us about Our Worth

“When political analysis is done with missionary zeal and copiously flows the adrenaline, the lynch mobs are never far behind. The critic is more guilty for the consequences than the subject of his criticism or the mob.”
― R. N. Prasher

“People convert to christianity looking for bread, people convert to hinduism looking for answers, people convert to buddhism in search of freedom, people convert to islam in order to heal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace