Missions Quotes

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Deitrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
― Abraham Kuyper

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”
― John Piper

“I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.”
― Eric Liddell

“People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living”
― Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie

“...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“We’re both as tall as most men here in 1801, so we can make it work.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“These creatures are not humanoid. They call themselves, the Fury, and the name is well deserved; they are a violent race. .”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“I’ll test the station the day after tomorrow. If it’s good, we’ll make the jump the day after that. So three days. I need three days.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“Abdul and Mohamed sat down, chilling the conversation at the table. They spoke in Urdu, unaware Lily understood them. When her expression changed subtly, Abdul noticed and switched to speaking English with a mundane comment.”
― Dennis K. Hausker, Secrets: in a corrupted society

“The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.”
― Henry Martyn

“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.”
― John Piper

“Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique. ”
― John Stott

“The “romance” of a missionary is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour in it; it doesn’t stir a man’s spirit or blood. So don’t come out to be a missionary as an experiment; it is useless and dangerous. Only come if you feel you would rather die than not come. Don’t come if you want to make a great name or want to live long. Come if you feel there is no greater honor, after living for Christ, than to die for Him.”
― C.T. Studd

“Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.”
― John Stott

“Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True.”
― Harrison Gray Otis

“It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.”
― Amy Carmichael

“The original language of Christianity is translation.”
― Lamin Sanneh

“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.”
― Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

“People with "missions" seldom stop to ask if the rest of the world wants to hear about it.”
― James Hold, Out of Texas 14 : The Iron Claw of Destiny, Part 2

“How we long to point to something - anything - and say "This works! This is sure!" But if it is something other than God Himself we are destined for disappointment.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, The Savage My Kinsman

“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

“Go ahead and make me more like jesus, whatever the cost. But please, when I feel like I can't stand anymore and cry out "Stop!" Will you ignore my quotation mark stock quotation mark and remember that today I said "Go ahead"?”
― Helen Roseveare, Give Me This Mountain: An Autobiography

“You may retire from your profession, but you never retire from
your mission.”
― Ben Stuart, Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

“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

“The [Great Commission phrase] “of all nations” in effect meant “not just the children of Israel.” It wasn’t about overseas missions; it was about the Kingdom of God destroying the ethnic divisions and the religious pride of Jewish believers. He wants us to invite ALL people into the Kingdom of God!”
― Curtis Ferrell, The Way to Discipleship: Thinking Well About the Kingdom of God

“Mission is the heartbeat of God, flowing directly from His nature. To know His nature is to know His heart; to know His heart is to know His word; and to know His word is to know His mission.”
― P.K. Satheesh Kunjumon