“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:…

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” ~ Jim Elliot ~ Jim Elliot was a missionary in ecuador. He along with four other missionaries were martyred while trying to reach the aucas.  

“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 ~ John Keith Falconer was an english evangelist.

“People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa… It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.” ~  Dr. David Livingstone ~ Dr. David livingstone was a medical missionary who explored the interior of africa. he worked to bring the gospel to the natives….

“There is nothing wrong with charitable acts – but they are not to be confused with preaching the Gospel. Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can save a soul from a life of sin and eternity in hell!” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~

“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.” ~ Amy Carmichael ~ Amy Carmichael was a missionary to india who opened up an orphanage for children on the streets or abused.  

“Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions.” ~Leonard Ravenhill~ Leonard Ravenhill was an English Revival pastor. Many of his converts devoted themselves to evangelism and mission work.  

“One of the most basic laws of creation is that every living thing reproduces after its own kind. If we are going to see a mass people movement to Christ, it will be done only through fielding many more thousands of national missionaries.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions

“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.” ~ Acts 20:24

“Preach abroad. It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in.” ~ Johnathan Edwards ~ Johnathan Edwards was a revival preacher during…

“Even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.” ~ William Carey ~ William Carrey is known as the Father…

“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 ~

“We do not adequately confess Christ as the God of all men if we seek to be his witnesses only among our neighbors. We must seek at the same time to confess him to the ends of the earth.” ~ Lesslie Newbigin ~ lesslie newbigin was a missionary in india.  

“For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for… ‘Apostolic passion,’ therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It’s the quality of those who are on fire…

“There is no better way to measure the self-centeredness in the Church than the lip service that we give to the heart of God concerning those who are living in total darkness.” ~ Dr. James L. West ~  

“Where there is no mission, there is no Church, and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith. …Mission, Gospel preaching, is the spreading out of the fire which Christ has thrown upon the earth. He who does not propagate this fire shows that he is not burning. He who burns propagates…

Charles Spurgeon ~ “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.”    

“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” ~ Dr. David Livingstone ~ Dr. David Livingstone was a medical missionary who explored the interior of Africa and devoted his life to reaching the people with the Gospel.

“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,…

“If ten men are carrying a log – nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end – and you want to help, which end will you lift on?” ~ William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached people…

“Today, as each second of the clock ticks by, thousands of people in the Two-Thirds World die and go to hell. They slip into eternity before anyone can reach them with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What does it really take, then, to improve our use of time and reach our generation with the Gospel…

“What would happen to this world if more evangelical Christians were to realize that God blessed them with money in order to make them a blessing, not to pamper them?” ~ Ralph Winter ~ ralph winter was the founder of the u.s. world center.

“God does promise to meet our physical needs. And He does, indeed, bless His children materially. But he blesses us for a purpose – not so we can squander those resources on ourselves but so we can be good stewards, using our resources wisely to win the lost to God’s saving grace.” ~ K.P. Yohannan,…

“Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief. It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den… Until you know that life is war, you…

“The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless ‘all the families of the earth,’ he has promised to do so ‘through Abraham’s seed’ (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham’s seed by faith, and the earth’s families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That…

“I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful influence on this life of mine than your prayers.” ~ Jim Elliot ~ jim elliot and five others were martyred while trying to reach the waodani.    

“And Jonah stalked to his shaded seat and waited for God to come around to his way of thinking. And God is still waiting for a host of Jonahs in their comfortable houses to come around to his way of loving.” ~ Thomas Carlisle ~

“It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: it is another and very different thing for him to understand that missions are the chief end of the church, and therefore the chief end for which his congregation exists.” ~ Andrew Murray ~  

“If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Savior, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there, and every one of them plead with him to come to…

“A Princeton University study found that in 2005 more than 1.6 million people took short-term missions trips costing a total of more than $2.5 billion, while $250 million was sent to support foreign missionaries in World A (unevangelized, undiscipled).” ~ Washington Post, “Churches Retool Mission Trips” and Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends ~