1. “I have but one can of life to burn and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light” John Keith Falconer
2. It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage. Samuel Marsden
3. We have all eternity to tell of victories won for Christ, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them. Anonymous GOC
4. Its amazing what can be accomplished if you don’t worry about who gets the credit. Clarence W. Jones
5. 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. TJ Back
6. “Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.” J Hudson Taylor
7. Here am I, Send Me! Isaiah
8. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
9. 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.
- Count Zinsindorf
10. 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. James O. Fraser
11. This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Jesus 2 –32 – forever
12. We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. Oswald J smith
13. His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice. John Stott
14. Tell the students t five up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ. Francis Xavier
15. Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. CT Studd
16. Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?… “ It is more a guestion with me whether we who have the Gospel and fail to five it to those who have not, can be saved. CH Spurgean
17. The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
-CH Spurgean
18. 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" -- John Keith Falconer
19. "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" -- Hudson Taylor [ video ]
20. "God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor
21. "The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor
22. "If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor
23. "Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" -- William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions [ more info ]
24. "The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." -- Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia
25. "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador [ info on video ] [ brief biography ]\
26. "We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it" -- P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene
27. "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" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone
28. "Can't you do just a little bit more?" -- J.G. Morrison pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries
29. "Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us." -- Keith Wright
30. "The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission
31. "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." -- C.T. Studd
32. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T. Studd
33. "No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith [ more on Oswald Smith ]
34. "This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green
35. "There is nothing in the world or the Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement
36. "If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death." -- Dave Davidson
37. "If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Groom (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
38. "World missions was on God's mind from the beginning." -- Dave Davidson
39. "Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" -- Bob Pierce, World Vision founder
40. "No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" -- William Borden
41. "The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." -- unknown
42. When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."
43. "Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? 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." -- Charles Spurgeon
44. "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor, missionary to China [ video ]
45. "The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry
46. "Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." -- Kurt von Schleicher [ Apple pickers' parable ]
47. "Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." --John Piper
48. "You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael, missionary to India
49. "Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence." -- Unknown
50. "As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both." -- J. L. Ewen
51. "The mission of the church is missions" -- Unknown
52. "Sympathy is no substitute for action." -- David Livingstone, missionary to Africa
53. "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." -- Robert Savage, Latin American Mission
54. "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." -- Nate Saint, missionary martyr [ devotional thoughts ]
55. "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." -- John Stott
56. "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." -- K.P. Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia Bible Society
57. "We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
58. "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
59. "The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura
60. "'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. 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. -- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
61. "It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not." -- Peter Taylor Forsyth
62. If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere. -- Edward Lawlor, Nazarene General Superintendent
63. "Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." -- Robert C. Shannon
64. "People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South." -- J. Howard Edington
65. "It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions." -- John R. Mott
66. "In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer." -- Dick Eastman, president of Every Home for Christ (formerly World Literature Crusade)
67. "What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?" -- Eleanor Roat, missions mobilizer
68. "We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer." -- Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International
69. "Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" -- Roderick Davis
70. "Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" -- Roland Allen
71. "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
72. "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." - Robert Savage
73. "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." - Ion Keith-Falconer
74. "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." - Gladys Aylward
75. "Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees."
- J. Hudson Taylor
76. "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." - Robert Morrison
77. "Here am I. Send me." - Isaiah
78. "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." - Nate Saint
79. "Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians" - Leonard Ravenhill
80. "Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary." - C.T. Studd
81. "Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine."
- said to a young William Carey
82. "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."
- Robert Moffat
83. "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."
- John Stott
84. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- Jim Elliot
85. "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."
- K.P. Yohannan
86. "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."
- Count Zinzindorf
87. "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies."
- J. Hudson Taylor
88. "He must increase, but I must decrease."
- John the Baptist
89. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
- C.T. Studd
90. "The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."
- William Cameron Townsend
91."Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes."
- Robert E. Speer
92. "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."
- Amy Carmichael
93. "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."
- James O. Fraser
94. "It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause."
- David Bryant
95. "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."
- Frederick Franson
96. "What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?"
- Malla Moe
97. "I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver."
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
98. "It's amazing what can be accomplished if you don't worry about who gets the credit."
- Clarence W. Jones
99. "Two distinguishing marks of the early church were: 1) Poverty 2) Power."
- T.J. Bach
100. "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."
- David Livingstone
101. "From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross."
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
102. "I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been."
- Lottie Moon
103. "All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient."
- William Carey
104. "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."
- C.T. Studd
105. "I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to."
- Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
106. "The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."
- Clarence W. Jones
107. "Expect great things from God. Attempt great thing for God."
- William Carey
108. "God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith."
- Andrew A. Bonar
109. "All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!"
- Jonathan Goforth
110. "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
111. "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."
- Jesus
112. "All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ."
- Keith Green
113. "Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them"
- A.W. Tozer
114. "I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares."
- Alexander Duff
115. "Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions"
- Leonard Ravenhill
116. "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."
- J. Hudson Taylor
117. "We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first."
- Oswald J. Smith
118. "God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know."
- David Bryant
119. "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."
- Paul
120. "Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?"
- K.P. Yohannan
121. "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."
- C. Gordon Olson
122. "I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!"
- George Miley
123. "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!"
- Church member
124. "When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen."
- said of John Geddie
125. "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."
- John G. Paton
126. "Save others, snatching them out of the fire."
- Jude
127. "The evangelization of the world in this generation."
- Student Volunteer Movement Motto
128. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring"
- Jesus
129. "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't."
- John Piper
130. "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."
- John Stott
131. "Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them."
- David Bryant
132. "Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ."
- Francis Xavier
133. "Christ for the students of the world, and the students of the world for Christ."
- Luther Wishard
134. "We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives."
- George Verwer
135. "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell."
- C.T. Studd
136. "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"
- J. Hudson Taylor
137. "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."
- David Smithers
138. "The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."
- Mike Stachura
139. "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.'"
- C.H. Spurgeon.
