Missionary Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Words are drops of blood, from my heart.

Jean Kenyon MacKenzie

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.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Christ through proclaiming the gospel, perfecting our lives, and redeeming our dead. As we come unto Christ, we bless our own lives, those of our families, and our Father in Heaven's children, both living and dead. . . . "I pray that we will be obedient to God, learn His will and do it, and, above all, that we will keep the first and great commandment-to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength" ("Come Unto Christ," April 1988 General Conference).

Ezra Taft Benson

The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christlike example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts.

David A. Bednar

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission.

Martin Robinson

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!

John Willis Zumwalt

One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.

John Willis Zumwalt

Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.

John Willis Zumwalt

If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity.

David G. McAfee

Life is a sacred shared-life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You see Jesus wrecked my life

We can serve humanity with our divine passions and gifted skills.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Always work enthusiastically.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May the Spirit of God empower you with divine strength to accomplish your mission on earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.

We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great mission lies ahead of us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord’s gracious hand is upon us.We will begin the good work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am mission and must complete it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He who want to be great must first be a servant.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

Work with enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must put all your heart into everything you do.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

A mighty fortress is our God, and in Him we are safe for time and for eternity. Shall we murmur if we have less of time than we expected? The less of time, the more of heaven. The briefer life, earlier mortality.

Edith E. Searell

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Serve one another with great humility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity!

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you find a need, reach out to help.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Generosity is an act of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to love, encourage and support each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We live life not only for ourselves but for others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred path leads to destiny destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every day is predetermined by God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest conduct is love in action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May we reach out to one another in love, in faith and in kindness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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