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“Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result of the community's constant prayer (cf. "Evangelii Nuntiandi," 75). Moreover, for the mission to be effective, communities must be united, that is, they must be "of one heart and soul" (cf. Acts 4:32), and they must be ready to witness to the love and joy that the Holy Spirit instils in the hearts of the faithful (cf. Acts 4:32).”

“May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.”

May Humanity Christ Brother News Charity Active Missionary Brothers And Sisters Good News

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'”

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Author:Adoniram Judson

“I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”

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Author:William Carey

“I love to live on the brink of eternity.”

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Book:The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]

Source: The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]

“All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.”

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Author:William Carey

“Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, '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.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.”

“Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?”

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Author:Jim Elliot

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”

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Author:William Cameron Townsend

“The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.”

“While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.”

Shows Lying Christianity Darkness Fields Circumstances Burden Missions Proof Missionary Continents Missions In Life Burden Of Proof

Author:Ion Keith-Falconer

“Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.”

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Author:Hudson Taylor

“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.”

“Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.”

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Author:Charles Studd

“A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.”

“I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.”

“It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.”

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Book:In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian

Source: In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian

“I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.”

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Author:Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.”

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Author:David Livingstone

“I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.”

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Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.”

“All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!”

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Author:Jonathan Goforth

“I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.”

“The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.”

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Author:E. Stanley Jones

“All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.”

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Author:Keith Green

“Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.”

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Book:So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service

Source: So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service

“We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.”

“God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.”

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Author:David Bryant

“Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?”

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Author:K.P. Yohannan

“I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!”

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Author:George H. Miley

“God provides the men and women needed for each generation.”

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Author:Mildred Cable

“I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.”

“At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.”

Source: John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907

“Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.”

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Author:David Bryant

“Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.”

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Author:Francis Xavier

“We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.”

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Book:Hunger for reality

Source: Hunger for reality

“Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.”

“When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.”

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Author:Hudson Taylor

“I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.”

“How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.”

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Book:Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings

Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings

“One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men and women [...] to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes.' As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.”

Heart Christianity Charity Tongue Missionary Apostolic Claret

Author:Anthony Mary Claret

“I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.”

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Author:Lottie Moon

“Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.”

Believe Sometimes Faith Plans Missionary

Book:I've got a feelin' everything's gonna be all right

Source: I've got a feelin' everything's gonna be all right

“The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.”

Inspiration Faith Secret Christian Inspirational Missionary

Author:Oswald Chambers

“I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.”

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Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.”

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Author:John Eudes

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