Quotes about Missions

2008-09-01

“Certainly the Lord allows things to happen that we might look more earnestly to Him in prayer.” Paul Fleming

“This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on this earth.” Keith Green

“What are you doing today that shows you are serving the God of the impossible?” Mel Wyma

“The Gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.” Carl F. Henry

“Today we must prepare to take advantage of the opportunities of tomorrow.” Paul Fleming

“Don’t let the good be the enemy of the best.” Paul Fleming

“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.” Pat Morley

“Prayer opens doors.” Harold Jackson

“The Great Commission was given as a command, not a mere suggestion.” Macon Hare, Sr.

“Keep your nose in the Word.” Bill Dillon

“The short years we have to live are far too short to waste on something that is not of God.” Paul Fleming

“In the vast plain of the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.” Robert Moffat

“World missions was on God’s mind from the beginning.” Dave Davidson

“We talk of the Second Coming; half of the world has never heard of the first.” Oswald J. Smith

“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

“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 Falconer

“The command has been to ‘go,’ but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence.” Robert Savage

“You can give without loving. You cannot love without giving.” Amy Carmichael

“Let my heart be broken with the things that break God’s heart.” Bob Pierce

“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” Mike Stachura

“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there.” J. Huson Taylor

“‘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 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

“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 in Matthew 24:14

“Here am I. Send me.” Isaiah in Isaiah 6:8