Missionary Quotes
God had an only son and he was a missionary. A poor, poor example of him I am. But in this work I now live. And in this work, I wish to die.
David Livingstone (Pioneer Missionary To Africa)
 
Remember, when you see a missionary coming home broken in body and weary in soul, it isn't the privations or dangers or things he's done that leave a deep hurt; it's the things he couldn't do that break his heart.  (Anonymous Missionary)
 
I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages - Villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the  world.               (Robert Moffat, 1795-1883 Pioneer missionary to South Africa)
 
We do not truly understand the gospel if we spend all of our time preaching it to Christians. The gospel is a missionary gospel.  It is a communication of Good News to people and in places where the name of Christ is unknown.          (David Sitton)
 
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition.  He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.   (James O. Fraser, 1886-1938, Missionary to China)
 
At the moment when I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, but now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of Glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces.  I shall never taste a deeper bliss till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus Himself.
John G. Paton (1824-1907, Pioneer Missionary to New Hebrides)
 
It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.  Samuel Marsden (1764-1838, Missionary to Australia)
 
 
I never made a sacrifice.  Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.     David Livingstone, (1813-1873, missionary to Africa)
 
 
When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!                  (Isobel Kuhn, 1901-1957, Missionary to China)
 
There is no neutral ground in the universe.  Every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.  C.S. Lewis
 
If we are going to wait until every possible hindrance has been removed before we do a work for the Lord, we will never attempt to do anything.  (T.J. Bach, 1881-1963, Missionary to Venezuela)
 
I like men whose vision carries them far beyond their own horizons. (Kenneth Strachan, 1910-1965,   Costa Rica)
 
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.  David Brainerd, 1718-1747, Missionary to North American Indians
 
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue.  It never needs a furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
William Cameron Townsend, 1896-1982, Missionary to Peru and Mexico
 
We are a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody. Jim Elliot, 1927-1956, Ecuador (Missionary martyr at the hands of the Auca Indians)
 
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead - Therefore, we must go forward. William Carey, 1761-1834, Missionary to India
 
What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.                Roland Allen, 1868-1947, Missionary to China
 
We dare not go on awakening interest in the gospel unless somehow we can nourish and preserve the results.  Clarence W. Jones, 1900-1986, Missionary to Ecuador
 
Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.            A.T. Pierson
 
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.               (Jim Elliot, 1927-1956, missionary martyr in Ecuador)
 
The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists... Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
(George Verwer, Missionary Strategist and founder of Operation Mobilization)
 
I don't think we are in any danger, and if we are, we might as well die suddenly in God's work as by some long drawn-out illness at home.                      Eleanor Chestnut (died in 1905, China)
 
I am on a crusade right now to recruit martyr missionaries for the least reached people groups of the world.   David Sitton
 
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.  (Isobel Kuhn, 1901-1957, China)
 
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work.  And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.  (Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905, China)
 
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same -- That they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around him in the West.     E. Stanley Jones, 1884-1973, India
 
I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.  (David Brainerd, 1718-1747, North American Indians)
 
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.  (Hudson Tayor, 1832-1905, China)
 
We visited sixty-six islands and landed eighty-one times, wading, swimming (to shore).  Most of the people were friendly and delightful; only two arrows shot at us, and only one went near -- So much for savages!                                   (John Coleridge Patteson, 1827-1871, Melanesia)
 
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility. (Isabella Thoburn, 1840-1901, India)
 
Unless there is the element of extreme risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.  (Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905, China)
 
One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven...Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together.                               (Amy Carmichael, 1867-1951, China)
 
"... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts.  Messengers arrived from every quarter of the island, inquiring anxiously about my health, and wondering if I was not feeling sick."  (John G. Paton, 1824-1907, New Hebrides Islands)
 
"I will lay my bones by the Ganges (River) that India will know there is someone who cares."   Alexander Duff, 1806-1878, India)
 
"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." Francis Xavier, (missionary to India, the Philippines and Japan)
 
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are.  Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.   Amy Carmichael (1867-1951, India)