Missionary Quotes

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

 

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.”     John Falconer

 

“We can give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.”  Alexander Duff

 

“If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.”     Hudson Taylor

 

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

Jim Elliot, missionary martyr

 

“If Jesus Christ  be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”  C.T. Studd

 

“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.”  Hudson Taylor

 

“Expect great things from God;  attempt  great things for God.”  William Carey

 

“In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.”  Robert Moffat

 

“If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.”    Oswald J. Smith

 

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

David Livingston

 

“The command has been to go, but we have stayed ~ in body, gifts, prayer and influence.  He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ~ but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.”  Robert Savage, Missionary to Latin America

 

“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

 

“No reserves.     No retreats.       No regrets!”     William Borden