| William Borden, Missionary
to China |
“No reserves. No retreats. No regrets”
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“If ten men are carrying a log, nine of
them on the little end and one at the heavy end and you want to
help, which end will you lift on?”
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| David Brainerd, Missionary
to the Seneca and Delaware Indians (1744-1747) of New York,
New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania |
“I cared not where or how I lived, or what
hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ.”
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| William Carey, who is called the “Father
of Modern Missions” |
“Expect great things from God; attempt
great things for God”
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“All my friends are but one, but He is
all sufficient.”
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| Amy Carmichael, Missionary to India |
“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without
giving.”
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“If I am content to heal a hurt slightly,
saying “Peace, peace,” where is no peace; if I forget
the poignant word “Let love be without dissimulation”
and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth
things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
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“‘The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church
here is a ‘field full of wheat and tares.’”
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| Tanna Collins, Missionary to Tibet |
“Lord, here in your precious Word I give
myself, my husband, my children, and all that I have or ever shall
posses, all to you. I will follow your will, even to China. Lord,
open doors, and I will go and tell the Chinese of your great love.
In time of need, supply for us; in time of sorrow, give us peace;
in times of joy, send someone to share. Help me to never murmur
nor complain. I love you Lord Jesus.”
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| Jim Elliot, Missionary Martyr Among the
Auca Indians of Ecuador |
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot
keep to gain that which he cannot lose”
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| John Keith Falconer, Missionary Among the
Arabs |
“I have but one candle of life to burn,
and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness
than in a land flooded with light”
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| Jonathan Goforth, Missionary to China |
“All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!”
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| Adoniram Judson, Missionary to Burma |
“If I had not felt certain that every additional
trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have
survived my accumulated suffering”
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| David Livingston, Missionary to Africa |
“If a commission by an earthly king is
considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be
considered a sacrifice?”
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“Sympathy is no substitute for action.”
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“Do not think me mad. It is not to make
money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing
a man can do is, just carry the humbly to receive, and then go
amongst others and give.”
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“Cannot the love of Christ missionary where
the slave trade carries the trader?”
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| Robert Moffat, Missionary to Africa |
“Oh, that I had a thousand lives, and a
thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment
but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved
mortals.”
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“I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand
villages--villages whose people are without Christ, without God,
and without hope in this world.”
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“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”
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| Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia |
“The spirit of Christ is the spirit of
missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary
we become.”
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| Nate Saint, Missionary Martyr – Served
with Jim Elliot |
“People who do not know the Lord ask
why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget
that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble
has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show
for the years they have wasted.”
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| C.T. Studd, Missionary to China, India,
and Africa. (1860-1931) |
“Had I cared for the comments of people,
I should never have been a missionary.”
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“Some wish to live within the sound of
a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of
hell.”
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“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me,
then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
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“For five years we never went outside our
doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.”
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“How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays.
The churches and missionary societies have so bound him in red
tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they
do the work themselves.”
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| Oswald J. Smith, Pastor and Evangelist
(1889-1986) |
“No one has the right to hear the gospel
twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”
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“Any church that is not seriously involved
in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical
right to exist.”
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“The mission of the church is missions”
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“We talk of the Second Coming; half the
world has never heard of the first.”
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“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me,
then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
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| Charles Spurgeon - (1834-1892) English
Baptist Preacher |
“Answering a student’s question,
‘Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?’
thus, ‘It is more a question with me whether we who have
the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.’”
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| Hudson Taylor, Missionary to China |
“God's work done in God’s way will
never lack God’s supply”
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“God isn’t looking for people of
great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him”
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“The Great Commission is not an option
to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed”
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“If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all
for China”
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“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough
to lean on him.”
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“Would that God would make hell so real
to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men
there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be
to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to
him of many.”
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“We did not come to China because missionary
work here was either safe or easy, but because He has called us.
We did not enter upon our present positions under a guarantee
of human protection, but relying on the promise of His presence.
The accidents of ease or difficulty, of apparent safety or danger,
of man's approval or disapproval, in no wise affect our duty.
Should circumstances arise involving us in what may seem special
danger, we shall have grace, I trust, to manifest the depth and
reality of our confidence in Him, and by faithfulness to our charge
to prove that we are followers of the Good Shepherd who did not
flee from death itself...”
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“Brother, if you would enter that Province,
you must go forward on your knees.”
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“It will not do to say that you have no
special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with
the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every
creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special
call to stay at home.”
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“When I get to China, I will have no claim
on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must
learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer
alone”
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