27 inspirational quotes about mission

Courtesy of Dave Freeman, below are a collection of inspirational (and convicting) quotes about mission.

“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
 
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” - Jim Elliot, missionary martyr
 
“Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don’t ‘feel called’ to the mission field. We don’t need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of ‘going out,’ and stop our weeping because ‘they won’t come in.’ Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.” - Jim Elliot

(Nate and Jim along with Ed, Roger and Pete died together)
 
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“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
 
“Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.” - C.T. Studd
 
“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
 
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“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 (missionary to India)

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

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“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.” - Hudson Taylor (missionary to China)
 
“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.” - Hudson Taylor
 
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed” - Hudson Taylor
 
“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him” - Hudson Taylor
 
“God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.” - Hudson Taylor
 
“If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.” - Hudson Taylor
 
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“I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ. While I was asleep I dreamed of these things, and when I awoke, it was the first thought that I had, the thought of this great work.” - David Brainerd
 
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“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” - William Carey (pioneer missionary to India, and called ‘the father of modern missions’)
 
“To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.” - William Carey
 
“Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?” - William Carey
 
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“The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.” - Henry Marty (missionary to India and Persia_
 
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“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
 
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“Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.” - John Piper
 
“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers 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 purpose.” - John Piper
 
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“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” - David Livingstone (missionary to Africa)
 
“God had only one Son and he made that Son a missionary.” - David Livingston
 
“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honour, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?” - David Livingstone
 
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“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.” - John Stott
 
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“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)
 
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“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