the one with quotes on missions

I've been working on a couple talks i'm doing and been looking up some quotes... here are a few goods ones i found:

 

George Verwer:

I believe the reason many Christians are so dull

and lifeless in their faith is because they are not

in the battle,

not using their weapons, not advancing

against the enemy.

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Without Holy Spirit boldness,

the world will remain unevangelised...

there can never be a substitute for the

power of the Spirit

working through willing men and women,

and that power will bring boldness.

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It’s so easy to lose the vision for souls...

if you have no time to drop your important job

and tell someone about Christ, then you are

too busy.

I believe

that encouraging workers

to go overseas will actually

strengthen the Christian

ministry in the west.

Most Christians want all of the privileges and none of the responsibilities.

We seem to have a strange idea of Christian service. We will buy books, travel miles to hear a speaker on blessings, pay large sums to hear a group singing the latest Christian songs- but we forget that we are soldiers.

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My life is full of unanswered prayer.

Not even 50 percent of my prayers have been

answered over the years, not yet at least.

I refuse to be

discouraged by this.

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God is seeking men and women of reckless faith today...to be reckless in your faith does not mean to be unthinking, but the reverse - concentrated, single-minded in your concern that God should be glorified and souls won.

The Great Commission is more than a call for you or me to leave where we are and go somewhere else. There is of course a great need for people to go, but there is a greater need for each of us to take up our own responsibility as part of the church's response to the Great Commission; to be personally involved in it whatever our particular role may be.

There are four warnings that I often give to people who are considering missionary work. Firstly your heart will be broken many times and you will face many disappointments. Secondly you will face financial pressures, battles and problems and also a wide range of differences of opinion on life-style and how money should be spent. Thirdly you will discover that it is sometimes relatively easy to get started on a project but unbelievably hard to keep it going and at the same time keep the loyalty of the people with whom you are working. Fourthly you will discover that roots of bitterness can come in very easily in Christian work, which sometimes, due to satanic opposition, can be more difficult and complex than in secular work, especially when money and other motivating forces are absent. This is not intended to be discouraging. There will also be, of course, blessings and joy over breakthroughs in answer to prayer. Missions work can mean a lot of fun. Many of the missionaries I know are grace-awakened people who know how to get the most out of their lives. Keeping a balance though between faith goals and unrealistic expectations is part of the process of counting the cost.

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" — Hudson Taylor 

"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" — Hudson Taylor

"The great commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" — Hudson Taylor

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." — Hudson Taylor, missionary to China 

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" — William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions 

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" — Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" — David Livingstone

"Sympathy is no substitute for action." — David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

"Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible." — C.T. Studd

"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 peoples in China

"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

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." — Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

"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

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." — John Stott

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

"The true greatness of any church in not how many it seats but how many it sends!" — Unknown

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." — Robert C. Shannon

"I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" — Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

"God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit." — George W. Peters

"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

"Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees."
           - J. Hudson Taylor

"Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians"
           - Leonard Ravenhill

The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."
           - Clarence W. Jones

"Expect great things from God. Attempt great thing for God."
           - William Carey

"Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them"
           - A.W. Tozer

"Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions"
           - Leonard Ravenhill

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't."
           - John Piper

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us  leaves us no other choice."
           - John Stott

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

"We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives."
           - George Verwer

"If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God."  --  Oswald J. Smith, Missionary Statesman

"Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but how much of God's money will I keep for myself."  --  John Wesley

"The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian." -- James S. Stewart

“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