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. — Deborah Cox
Missionary life is simply a chance to die. — Amy Carmichael
The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity. — Ron Luce
If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane. — David Sills
Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. — Loren Cunningham
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory. — Robert Barron
I'd love to travel to the Holy Land. — Loretta Lynn
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go. — A. B. Simpson
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone
The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations. — Reinhard Bonnke
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau
Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! — Jimmy Buffett
Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven! — Pope Urban II
Missionary Life Quotes
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. — David Livingstone
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give. — David Livingstone
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. — Joseph Murphy
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth! — Keith Green
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. — William Carey
The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. — Oswald J. Smith
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ — David Brainerd
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
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith
The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others. — Neal A. Maxwell
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. — Hudson Taylor
If the things behind you are tripping you, you're moving in the wrong direction.
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. — Benjamin Rush
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations — Oswald Chambers
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. — Tony Campolo
Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness. — Adoniram Judson
Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do. — Charles Studd
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. — Charles Studd
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves. — Charles Studd
Missionary Service Quotes
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 — David Brainerd
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
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. — J. Oswald Sanders
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. — Roland Allen
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service. — David Livingstone
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that. — David Sills
Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar. — L. Tom Perry
Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character. — ElRay L. Christiansen
Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity. — Thomas S. Monson
Christian Mission Quotes
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
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. — John Piper
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
People don't take trips, trips take people.
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go — A. A. Allen
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. — John Stott
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me. — Hudson Taylor
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. — Carl F. H. Henry
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture. — Alan Hirsch
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. — Amy Carmichael
The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them. — Jackie Pullinger
To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him. — William Carey
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. — William Booth
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, '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
Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades. — Mike Bickle
The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else. — F. E. Marsh
Live your life as a missions trip. — Reggie McNeal
'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.' — Stuart Holden
The Church must send or the church will end. — Mendell Taylor
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible. — Charles Studd
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world. — A. B. Simpson
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. — Hudson Taylor
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. — Isaiah
God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him — Hudson Taylor
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes. — K.P. Yohannan
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not. — Peter Forsyth
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. — Amanda Smith
Plan for the worst, expect the best. — David Gemmell
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest. — Ann Voskamp
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