Quotes on Missions

• "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit..." Matthew 28:19
• "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, Arabia
• "God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supply." -- Hudson Taylor, China
• "To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map." -- William Carey, India
• "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, South America
• "If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone, Africa
• "Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." --John Piper, United States
• "You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael, India
• "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, South America
• "Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions." -- Leonard Ravenhill, United States
• "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, Africa
• "If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king." -- Charles Spurgeon, England
• "The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ." -- Vance Havner, United States
• "I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" -- Isobel Kuhn, China