Missions has always been close to my heart... these quotes from missionaries express such amazing passion, love, conviction and truth. What better way to live than to give everything to the One who gave all?
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"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" -- Bob Pierce, World Vision founder
"Sympathy is no substitute for action."
--David Livingstone, missionary to Africa
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" -- Roderick Davis
"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
"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, missionary to Ecuador
"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, missionary to China
"Here am I. Send me."
- Isaiah
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- Jim Elliot, missionary to Ecuador
"The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."
- Clarence W. Jones
"Expect great things from God. Attempt great thing for God."
-William Carey
"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
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