Missionary Quotes

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

~ John Wesley

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.

~ John Piper

Words are drops of blood, from my heart.

~ Jean Kenyon Mackenzie

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

~ William Carey

What can we do to win these men to Christ?

~ Richard Wurmbrand

To know God and to make Him known.

~ Loren Cunningham

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

~ P.f. Bresee

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

~ Wesley Duewel

As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.

~ J.l. Ewen

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

~ Robert Speer

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

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

~ Dan Simmons

I wish you believe, not for myprofit, but for yours. I daily pray the true God give you light, that you may believe. Whether you will ever believe in tis world I do not know, but when you die I know you will believe what I now say. You will then appear before God you now deny. - Adorinam Judson to his Burman teacher.

~ Courtney Anderson