Great Missionary Quotes

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

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.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

The Church must send or the church will end.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.

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.

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

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

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

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.

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

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.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

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?

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

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.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

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

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

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". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

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.

The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

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

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha