Missionary Quotes

“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
― Hudson Taylor

“You have one business on earth – to save souls.”
― John Wesley

“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
― David Livingstone

“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.”
― Hudson Taylor

“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.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.”
― Robert C. Shannon

“Untold millions are still untold.”
― John Wesley

“Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.”
― William Booth

“We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.”
― John H. Groberg

“The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.”
― David Livingstone

“My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.”
― Stefne Miller, Collision

“There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one--brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter-- eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world, where one could enjoy it perpetually.”
― Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson

“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.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility. “Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love, than a country just recently ravaged by war?”
“Where better to be kidnapped and sold into slavery, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” with a discernible sneer.”
― V.S. Carnes

“Learn to trust His heart when you cannot trace His hand,”
― M. David Sillis

“A man would require a brave heart, indeed, to ask any woman he loved to share the hardships and dangers of a missionary's life.”
― Grace Livingston Hill, An Unwilling Guest

“These things may sound trivial, but they are signs of adjustment in our human aspect of life. We are just your average family. I’m happy to report we’re all saved by grace and living in His power. Because of the unique culture we live in, we face different struggles in this earthly journey. It is always fun to sit back and marvel at how God will work out each of the situations that distract us from fellowship with Him. These distractions can strengthen us in our walk if we allow God to take hold. Or, they can keep us away from our source of life and strength: God, our maker.”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

“I can’t give this letter a storybook ending in the world’s eyes. Today finds Bob back to his regular schedule and the boys spending extra time talking with me flopped across the foot of my bed, which seems to be my permanent residence for now. My head symptoms have not changed. The medication has not settled well, and so the struggle continues. Whether I am in the valley or soaring above the mountain tops, God is there with me. I thank God that I am able to be His child. Now that’s a true storybook ending!”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

“Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours to civilize civilization and Christianize Christendom?”
― Herman Melville, White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War

“It is these men and women who ask us to tell it out clearly how sorely our Indian Church needs your prayers. They have no desire to hide things. They speak straighter than we do, and far more strongly, and they believe, as we do, that if you know more you will pray more.”
― Amy Carmichael, Things as They Are: Mission Work in Southern India

“Give me Laxalar or I die,' Sarah prayed.”
― Rich Coffeen, The Discipling Of Mytra

“I gave haircuts this morning. The boys think I should do them just like the short-term beautician who was here. Their regular cut with her was a shave up the side coming to a v in the back. Right. Well, I did my best. Josh thinks he may need to wear a hat all weekend. The All West African baseball tournament is in Lomé, and he doesn’t have two days to wait until a bad haircut turns into a good one. Grandpa always said, ‘The only difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is two days.”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

“When I say, ‘I’m on a fucking mission’, what I mean is that—No matter how you haters ride me, I’m gonna get on top and I’m never gonna stop until I impregnate the world with my ideas!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“EVERY TRUE CHRISTIAN IS A SOLDIER—of Christ—a hero "par excellence!" Braver than the bravest—scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

THE OTHERWISE CHRISTIAN IS A CHOCOLATE CHRISTIAN! Dissolving in water and melting at the smell of fire.”
― C.T. Studd, The Chocolate Soldier: Or, Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity

“Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.”
― CT Studd

“If you don't desire to meet the Devil during the day, meet Jesus before dawn.”
― CT Studd

“[S]lowly, unwillingly, I began to see what God had been trying to teach me. He hadn't called me, really, to be a missionary... He had called me to Himself, to be like His Son, Jesus Christ. And He wanted me to follow Him to South America. Now." -”
― Bruce Olson, Bruchko

“Like a banana, the missionary is germinated and grows in the protected home environment. Finally ties with the mother plant are cut and the "green" recruit is transplanted to a foreign hsore. There he slowly ripens, until at the end of a four-year term he is considered ripe, thus earning the ominous title: "senior missionary".”
― Larry Dinkins, Help! My Halo is Slipping: The Saga of a First-Term Missionary

“Like a banana, the missionary is germinated and grows in the protected home environment. Finally ties with the mother plant are cut and the "green" recruit is transplanted to a foreign shore. There he slowly ripens, until at the end of a four-year term he is considered ripe, thus earning the ominous title: "senior missionary".”
― Larry Dinkins