Quotes by Missionaries

Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
John Eliot
Sow an act reap a habit sow a habit reap a character sow a character reap a destiny.
G. D. Boardman
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.
James Hudson Taylor
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Elizabeth Elliot
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
Mother Teresa
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andrew Murray
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
Adoniram Judson
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Andrew Murray
God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.
Adoniram Judson
Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you and works in you. Strive in prayer let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Andrew Murray
We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.
Frank C. Laubach
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.
J. Hudson Taylor
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
Andrew Murray
Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!
Henry Martyn
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."
Andrew Murray
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andrew Murray
While others still slept He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.
Andrew Murray
Abiding fully means praying much.
Andrew Murray
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Fear is sand in the machinery of life.
E. Stanley Jones
Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andrew Murray
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Mother Teresa
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
Adoniram Judson
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Andrew Murray
God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.
Adoniram Judson
Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you and works in you. Strive in prayer let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Andrew Murray
We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.
Frank C. Laubach
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.
J. Hudson Taylor
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
Andrew Murray
Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!
Henry Martyn
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."
Andrew Murray
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andrew Murray
While others still slept He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.
Andrew Murray
Abiding fully means praying much.
Andrew Murray
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Fear is sand in the machinery of life.
E. Stanley Jones
Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.
Mother Teresa
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope always hope.
Mother Teresa
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
Frances Newton
Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
E. Stanley Jones
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
St. Francis Xavier
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Mother Teresa