If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" – David Livingstone
"Sympathy is no substitute for action." – David Livingstone, missionary to Africa
“We all have to wait until the astonishing discoveries will one day be made, and find out whose faithful prayer in hospitals, prisons, jungles, wheelchairs, crowded city apartments, cabins in the woods, farms, factories, or concentration camps has been a part of a specific victory in snatching someone from a circle of death, or in breaking chains so that there seems to be an ease for that one in stepping into new life. I feel sure that we’ll be surprised beyond measure to discover who or how many will receive the rewards for their part in taking literally and with simple faith and trust the responsibility to intercede, to pray, to make requests day in and day out.” – Edith Schaeffer
"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." – Oswald J. Smith
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." – John Piper
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." – Oswald J. Smith
"If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" – Jordan Grooms
"If ten men are carrying a log – nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end – and you want to help, which end will you lift on?" – William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples
When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."
"Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? 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
"God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose." – John Piper
"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." – Nate Saint, missionary martyr
"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." – Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan
"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." – Mike Stachura
"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" – Roderick Davis
"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small." – Pat Morley
"I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" – Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand
"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet." – Unknown
"Two distinguishing marks of the early church were: 1) Poverty 2) Power." – T.J. Bach
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