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Missionary Quotes

Missionary quotes are a great way turn your congregation’s thoughts towards missions. Put a few in your church bulletin during a missions emphasis Sunday or accent your Missions Conference booklet with these wonderful sayings that speak volumes about having a burden for souls.

William Borden, Missionary to China
  • “No reserves. No retreats. No regrets”
  • “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?”
David Brainerd, Missionary to the Seneca and Delaware Indians (1744-1747)
  • “I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ.”
  • “Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God’s glory!”
  • “I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.”
  • “It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.”
  • “All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.”
William Carey, who is called the “Father of Modern Missions”
  • “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God”
  • “All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.”
Amy Carmichael, Missionary to India
  • “You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.”
  • “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.”
  • “‘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.’”
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.”
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”
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”
Jonathan Goforth, Missionary to China
  • “All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!”
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.”
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?”
  • “Sympathy is no substitute for action.”
  • “God had only one Son and he made that Son a missionary.”
  • “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.”
  • “Cannot the love of Christ missionary where the slave trade carries the trader?”
  • “Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.”