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No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ
None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."
I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.
We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.
This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
This generation can only reach this generation.
The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.
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.
I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.
There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.
If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.
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.
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.
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.
Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?
God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
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.
You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.
I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.