65 Missionary Quotes

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Short Missionary Quotes

  • You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. — William Wilberforce
  • The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
  • Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone
  • You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley
  • I am immortal till my work is accomplished — David Livingstone
  • One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! — T.L. Osborn
  • The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible. — Reinhard Bonnke
  • The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone
  • 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

Missionary Image Quotes

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes. - William Carey quote

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes. — William Carey

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. - Hudson Taylor quote

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. — Hudson Taylor

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. - Loren Cunningham quote

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. — Loren Cunningham

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal. - Heidi Baker quote

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal. — Heidi Baker

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go. - Keith Green quote

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go. — Keith Green

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal! - Jonathan Goforth quote

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal! — Jonathan Goforth

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else. - Heidi Baker quote

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else. — Heidi Baker

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith. - Andrew Bonar quote

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith. — Andrew Bonar

Christian Missionary 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

Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry. — William Booth

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

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

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

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

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. — Oswald J. Smith

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 must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. — John Stott

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More Missionary Quotes

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me. — Watchman Nee

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours. — David Livingstone

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

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness. — Hudson Taylor

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. — David Jeremiah

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

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

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

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

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ — David Brainerd

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. — Maximilien Robespierre

It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. — Elisabeth Elliot

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers. — Abul A'la Maududi

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world. — David Livingstone

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst. — William Booth

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