100 World Christian Quotes "The command has been to "go," but
we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked
us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but
99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland."
"Other sheep I have which are not of this
fold; them also I must bring." “It is the whole business of the whole church
to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.” "God's work done in God's way will never lack
God's supplies." "We must be global Christians with a global
vision because our God is a global God." “We are not over-loaded, we are under-burdened.”
- Anonymous "Expect great things from God. Attempt great
things for God." "God's part is to put forth power; our part
is to put forth faith." "When God's finger points, God's hand will
open the door." “If you don’t go, who will?” - Anonymous "All the resources of the Godhead are at our
disposal!" “The mission of the church is missions.” “The prospects are as bright as the promises
of God.” "Must you go to China? How much nicer it would
be to stay here and serve the Lord at home!" She made it plain
at last that she would not go to China." "You can do something other than working with
God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and
you couldn't come up with something better." “Praying for the lost is deep-knee fishing.” - WDB (Missionary to Brazil) "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." "As long as there are millions destitute of
the Word of God and the knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible
for me to devote my time and energy to those who have both."
“If no one goes, who cares? The rich man
in Hell cared!” "If every Christian is already considered
a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs
to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only
concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized
areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians
and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on
unchanged." "While vast continents are shrouded in darkness...
the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances
in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of
the foreign mission field." "I wasn't God's first choice for what I've
done for China... I don't know who it was... It must have been a
man... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps
he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing... and God looked down... and
saw Gladys Aylward... And God said - "Well, she's willing."
"Brother, if you would enter that Province,
you must go forward on your knees." "The man... looking at him with a smile that
only half concealed his contempt, inquired, "Now Mr. Morrison
do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry
of the Chinese Empire?" "No sir," said Morrison,
"but I expect that God will." “The church that does not evangelize will
fossilize.” "Here am I. Send me." "And 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." “You can’t take the gospel to the wrong address.” - Anonymous “The problem in missions is basically spiritual:
we don’t see the heathen, we don’t hear their cry, we
don’t open our mouths, and we don’t unfold our wallets.”
“The taste of bread that is shared has no equal.” - Anonymous “A missions conference is a church in a Business
Meeting deciding the fate of the heathen.” “As The Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.” John 20:21 "Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in Hell and
neither do most Christians" "Had I cared for the comments of people, I
should never have been a missionary." "Young man, sit down: when God pleases to
convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine."
"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."
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” - Anonymous "A tiny group of believers who have the gospel
keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions
who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal Hell
without ever hearing the salvation story." "I have but one passion - it is He, it is
He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and
henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used
in winning souls for Christ." "He must increase, but I must decrease."
“ The Gospel only grows “God is not looking for a certain IQ. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then
no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." "The greatest missionary is the Bible in the
mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."
"Two distinguishing marks of the early church
were: 1) Poverty & 2) Power." "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 humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and
give." “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” Daniel 12:3 "From my many years' experience I can unhesitatingly
say that the cross bears those who bear the cross." "I pray that no missionary will ever be as
lonely as I have been." "All my friends are but one, but He is all
sufficient." “God had only one Son and He made Him a missionary.” "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." "I have always believed that the Good Samaritan
went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to."
"The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities
there are for God to do something." "I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized
within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness
of Christians." "Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always
costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one
who loves that one." “The gospel is only good news if it reaches
the lost in time.” “The worst crime of the desert is knowing
where the water is and not telling.” "Christians don't tell lies, they just go to
church and sing them" “All God wants is all you’ve got! He
can handle it better than you can. We sing “All to Jesus”….let’s
live it.” "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."
"I used to think that prayer should have the
first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer
to give prayer the first, second, and third places, and teaching
the fourth." "If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language
is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you,
fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray."
"What are we here for, to have a good time
with Christians or to save sinners?" "I have said that there is nothing in the
world or the Church, except it's disobedience, to render the evangelization
of the world in this generation an impossibility." "Oh dear, I couldn't say that my church is
alive and I wouldn't want to call it dead. I guess it's just walking
in its sleep!" "When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians
here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen." "I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready
to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing
of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have
never heard." "Save others, snatching them out of the fire."
"His authority on earth allows us to dare
to go to all the nations. His authority in Heaven gives us our only
hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice."
"I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India
might know there is one who cares." "Today Christians spend more money on dog
food then missions." "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." "We talk of the second coming, half the world
has never heard of the first." "And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not
where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another
man's foundation." "Today five out of six non-Christians in our
world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the
church among them." "Tell the students to give up their small
ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ."
"Christ for the students of the world, and
the students of the world for Christ." "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel
bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell." "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."
"God has huge plans for the world today! He
is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches
among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and
empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost
ends of the earth." "The mark of a great church is not its seating
capacity, but its sending capacity." "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.'" Twenty year-old John R. Mott walked in late to
the meeting at Cornell while J.K. Studd was quoting, “Young
man, are you seeking great things for yourself? Seek them not! Seek
first the Kingdom of God!" He couldn't sleep all night. He
finally got up and had the courage to meet with Studd. He later
said that the meeting with Studd was the "decisive hour of
his life". He went on to become the greatest missions mobilizer
in world history. “Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” Psalm 2:8 "There is something wonderfully misleading,
full of hallucination and delusion in this business of missionary
calls. With many of us it is not a missionary call at all that we
are looking for; it is a shove. There are a great many of us who
would never hear a call if it came." "I have found that there are three stages
in every great work of God; first, it is impossible, then it is
difficult, then it is done." "I love to live on the brink of eternity."
"The greatest tragedy to befall a person is
to have sight but lack vision." "'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the
call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and
hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put
your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen
to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of Hell, and
hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid
their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come
there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed
to obey, and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body
and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world."
"Here is a test to find whether your mission
on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't." "If God has fit you to be a missionary, I
would not have you shrivel down to be a king." "The world is my parish." "Why doesn't your God speak my language?"
"I am willing to go anywhere, at anytime,
to do anything for Jesus." "At the moment I put the bread and wine into
those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now
stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals 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." "The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth
would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator
25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling
endlessly toward Hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night."
"God does not have to come and tell me what
I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself
where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and
I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had
a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work,
they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize
what they can do for God." "A little prayer, little power; no prayer,
no power." "I will open Africa to the gospel or die trying."
"None but women can reach Muslim Women...
So we have a solemn duty in this matter that we cannot shift. The
blood of souls is on our skirts, and God will demand them at our
hands." "We have a God who delights
in impossibilities." "Why do you need a voice when you have a verse."
"The history of missions is the history of
answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England
and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom
of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and
the secret of spiritual triumph." “Anywhere, provided it be forward--- farther
still farther into the night.” “The light that shines farthest shines brightest
nearest home.” “The right arm of every church should be missions.” “Think what we can do together to reach the
world for Christ.” “Why wait for a call when you have a command?” “Why should anyone hear the gospel twice before
everyone has heard it once?” “Nothing earthly will make me give up in despair.” “Battles are won by teaching soldiers how
to die, not how to avoid dying.” “I must go. If Jesus Christ be God and died
for me, then no sacrifice can be to great for me to make for Him.” “Delayed obedience is disobedience; and disobedience
is sin.” “You must go or send a substitute” “Now let me burn out for God.” “The church which ceases to be evangelistic
will soon cease to be evangelical.” “You have one business on earth - to save
souls.” “I declare, now I am dying, I would not have
spent my life otherwise for the world.” “No sacrifice is too great for the King of
kings and Lord of lords.” “Let a thousand fall but don’t give
up Africa.” “No other generation but ours can evangelize
the present generation.” “Unless I am sure I am doing more at home
to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.” “World missions is God’s therapy for
the sin of selfishness within the local church.” “Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the
service of Christ.” “Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense,
whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service
– He paid mine.” Whatever we yield, God accepts; Giving is not a matter of can or cannot; it is a
matter of will or will not. “Missions: The Word of God from the heart
of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and
pure vessel.” “There are more Baptist preachers in Texas
than Baptist missionaries in all the world.” “Man’s greatest discovery is to discover
the will of God. Man’s greatest achievement is to do the will
of God.” “The heart of God is too grieved, “We are not trying to raise up more money;
we’re trying to raise up better men. We are not trying to
raise up cash; we’re trying to raise up Christians.” “Don’t send a lamp to the mission field
that will not burn at home.” “God saves us for more than to escape Hell,
He has saved us to share Christ world – wide.” “Without a vision the people perish; and without
the people, the vision perishes.” “God alone has a world vision, we have a limited
vision, the more we resemble Him, the greater our vision.” “World Missions is God’s major therapy
for our sin of selfishness that eats the heart out of the local
church.” “The objective of World Missions is to establish
a healthy, reproducing, independent Baptist Church in every locale
in the world.” “It is doubtful that you’ll grow in
faith if you’re stingy with God.” “As soon as we cease to bleed we cease to
bless.” “World Missions is not an elective for the
local church, it is a “required course”.” “One thing we cannot do about World Missions
– get rid of our responsibility.” “Our World Missions goal – a New Testament
Church for every people, and the gospel for every person.”
“Not one person in the world needs Jesus Christ
less than you do.” Without the leadership of the Spirit of Christ,
“How has my life counted today for World Missions?” - Anonymous “Our local churches are born to reproduce themselves.” - Anonymous “If the arms of our church do not reach around the world, they are too short.” - Anonymous “Christians live and give for that which matters most.” - Anonymous “Live simply so that others can simply live.” - Anonymous “Give to World Missions while your hand is warm.” - Anonymous “God will not ask you to give an unreasonable
amount, but He will stretch your faith – let Him.”
“We can give less to missions this year, if
the world is getting smaller.” “Do in your mission giving what will bring
you joy at the Judgement Seat of Christ.” “God is not limited to a fixed income.” - Anonymous “We are willing to give to World Missions, if it doesn’t affect our lifestyle.” - Anonymous “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” Ezekiel 22:30 “Oh, that I might be a flaming fire in the
service of the Lord. Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends
of the earth…send me from all that is called earthly comfort;
send me even to death itself if it be but in Thy service and to
promote Thy Kingdom.” “God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a
worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshippers 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 “We want Paul's theology and his results
but not his methods.” “Does it really matter how many die or how
much money we spend in opening closed doors if we really believe
that missions are warfare and that the King’s glory is at
stake?” “Send us people with initiative, who can carry
themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the
work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the
heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy,
prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them,
nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys;
men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances.
If you send us ten “Give according to your income lest God make
your income according to your giving.”
“Not how much of my money will I give to God,
but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?” “Sympathy is no substitute for service.” “If we have not enough in our religion to
drive us to share it with all the “Go all out for God and God will go all out
for you!” “ Where there is God’s will, there
is God’s way.” “Come and die, the Master calleth, come and
die.” “Only this generation can reach this generation.”
“Here am I; send me.” Isaiah 6:8 “You are either a missionary or a mission
field.” “Although we do not believe in the false
theology of “liberation theology,” we do believe in
a “salvation theology” that absolutely liberates.“
“The size of your faith in God determines
the size of your burden for world missions.” “The purpose of the church is to worship the God Who loved the world. The mission of the church is to win the world that needs its loving God.” – David Bennett “The earth is the Lord’s and all that
is in it, including those that are lost. “The only things we
keep permanently are those we give away.” “Mission giving must be more than surplus
giving – it must become both sacrificial and faith giving.”
“All Believers are not called to be foreign
missionaries, but they should struggle with the possibility.” “Missionaries do not go to the mission field,
they are sent.” “God does not choose people who are qualified
for His work, He does the choosing and when they are willing, He
will qualify them.” “God does not put an age limit on fulfilling
the Great Commission." "We must ask ourselves the right questions if Missions is to survive and flourish in our millennium. The right question is this: 'Is there enough PASSION in the heart of the church to PREACH of the PERSON of Christ to the PEOPLES of this world?'”
"If we lose our passion we will lose our mission." "Fame, pleasure and riches are but husks and
ashes in contrast with the boundless and abiding joy of working
with God for the fulfillment of his eternal plans."
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