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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

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

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

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.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

The Son of God had missionary supporters

Today, 112 years later, 94% of the people in the world recognize the Coca-Cola logo and product. In 112 years, we can reach the world for profit's sake, but we cannot do it for the glory of God in 2,000 years.

This isn't missionary work. This is missionary fun.

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

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

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

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

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.

When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

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?

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

Always work enthusiastically.

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

A man may die leaving upwards of a million, without taking any of it upwards.

A mighty fortress is our God, and in Him we are safe for time and for eternity. Shall we murmur if we have less of time than we expected? The less of time, the more of heaven. The briefer life, earlier mortality.

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission.