Missionary Quotes

List of top sayings and quotations by famous missionarys like Hudson Taylor, Sadhu Sundar Singh and Lottie Moon


  • Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.

    — Gladys Aylward
    218
  • God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

    — Hudson Taylor
    202
  • Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards.

    Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

    — Hudson Taylor
    194
  • The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

    — Hudson Taylor
    188
  • I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China.

    ..I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

    — Gladys Aylward
    181
  • And 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
    175
  • 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
    173
  • There is no success without sacrifice.

    If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

    — Adoniram Judson
    160
  • The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity.

    ..if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."

    — Hudson Taylor
    157
  • Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it.

    Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    156
  • Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

    — Lottie Moon
    154
  • Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth?

    — Lottie Moon
    148
  • Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with for Him and His glory.

    — Gladys Aylward
    141
  • Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps.

    And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

    — Hudson Taylor
    141
  • When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.

    — Nate Saint
    137
  • Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

    — Mary Slessor
    136
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    • Loren Cunningham
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    • George Patterson
    • James Legge
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  • Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

    — Mary Slessor
    135
  • Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

    — Mary Slessor
    132
  • When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything.

    My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

    — Hudson Taylor
    112
  • A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

    — Lottie Moon
    110
  • Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    109
  • There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    102
  • I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

    — Nate Saint
    102
  • I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

    — Hudson Taylor
    99
  • There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

    — Hudson Taylor
    94
  • Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist.

    We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    93
  • Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.

    — Lottie Moon
    88
  • All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

    — Hudson Taylor
    87
  • God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet.

    The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

    — Jackie Pullinger
    87
  • 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
    83
  • The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

    — Hudson Taylor
    83
  • The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

    — Jackie Pullinger
    81
  • God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

    — Hudson Taylor
    79
  • The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

    — Adoniram Judson
    78
  • Pray as you can, not as you can't.

    — Johnny Appleseed
    77
  • The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

    — Hudson Taylor
    77
  • If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

    — Loren Cunningham
    75
  • The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

    — Loren Cunningham
    74
  • The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man.

    You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

    — Johnny Appleseed
    74
  • Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    73
  • Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

    — Frank Laubach
    72
  • I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

    — Adoniram Judson
    71
  • From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    70
  • Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

    — Loren Cunningham
    67
  • Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

    — Francis Xavier
    66
  • Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

    — Loren Cunningham
    66
  • Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

    — Sadhu Sundar Singh
    65
  • If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

    — Jonathan Goforth
    65
  • Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;

    Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

    — Charles Studd
    65
  • If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

    — Charles Studd
    63
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