Inspiring Quotes About Missions

Every month, our BMAA Missions Department sends us some updates by mail and this month, they included several pages of quotes concerning missions. I’ve selected some of my favorites to pass along…

You have one business on earth – to save souls. ~ John Wesley

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. ~ Henry Martyn

There is nothing in the world or the church – except the church’s disobedience to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility. ~ Robert Speer

What is your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you? ~ David Livingston

If God’s love is for anybody anywhere, it’s for everybody everywhere. ~ Edward Lawlor

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

There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible, Difficult, Done. ~ J. Hudson Taylor

If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary. ~ G. Campbell Morgan

We should not ask, “What is wrong with the world?” for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, “What happened to the salt and light?” ~ John Stott

Wew have eternity to tell of the victories won for Christ, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them. ~ Anonymous

Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry. ~ William Booth

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ~ Jim Elliot

If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness, it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The bedrock of missions is not the value of man, it is the spread of God’s glory. the biblical commitment to evangelism and missions is rooted in God’s passionate concern to make His name known. ~ Steve Fernandez

We face a humanity that is too precious to neglect. We know a remedy for the ills of the world too wonderful to withhold. We have a Christ too glorious to hide. We have an adventure that is too thrilling to miss. ~ Theodore Williams

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. ~ Charles Spurgeon

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient. ~ John Piper

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, “Shake well before using.” That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. ~ Vance Havner

Sometimes God doesn’t tell us His plan because we wouldn’t believe it anyway. ~ Carlton Pearson

Have another you’d like to share? Do so in the comments…