Missionary Quotes and Sayings

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Attempt great things for God,
Expect great things from God.
— William Carey

Anywhere, provided it be forward.
— David Livingstone

You have one business on earth - to save souls.
— John Wesley

You can't beat God giving.
— Oswald J. Smith

God had an only Son, and He made Him a missionary.
— David Livingstone

This generation can only reach this generation.

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

Give according to your income, lest God make your income according to your giving.
— Peter Marshall

We can give without loving,
but we cannot love without giving.
— Amy Carmichael

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

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

I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
— Zinzendorf

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but how much of God's money will I keep for myself?
— John Wesley

The first work of the whole Church is to give the Gospel  to the whole world.

Why should so few hear the Gospel again and again when so many have never heard it once?
— Oswald J. Smith

If God will the evangelization of the world,
and you refuse to support missions,
then you are opposed to the will of God.
— Oswald J. Smith

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
— David Livingstone

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
— Billy Graham

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
— William Booth

God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.
— Hudson Taylor

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.
— Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

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

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
— Hudson Taylor

If you don’t have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.
— Keith Green

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

In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.
— Robert Moffat

No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
— William Borden

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
— Hudson Taylor

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

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

Untold millions are still untold.
— John Wesley

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
— C.T. Studd

The true greatness of any church in not how many it seats but how many it sends!