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Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.
Sep 17, 2025
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
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.
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.
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.
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.
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.'
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
Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions
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!
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.
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.
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
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.
The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
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.
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.
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.
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
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.
Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?
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.
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.