Some great quotes about missions

"Don't be careful whether men receive what you give in the right way or the wrong way; see to it that you don't withhold your hand. As long as you have something to give, give. Let the consequences be what they may."

--Oswald Chambers  (from Shade of His Hand)

 

“I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,” said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward.

Alexander MacLaren

Many of us cannot reach the mission fields on our feet, but we can reach them on our knees.

T.J. Bach

Personal working for souls is good. Giving money is good. But praying is best of all. By prayer we reach Him without whom work and money are alike in vain. We obtain the aid of the Holy Spirit. Money can hire workers. Universities can give learning. Congregations may elect. Bishops may ordain. But the Holy Spirit alone can make ministers of the Gospel, and raise up lay workmen in the spiritual harvest, who need not be ashamed. Never, never may we forget that if we would do good to the world, our first duty is to pray!

J.C. Ryle  (Commentary, Matthew 9)

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Vance Havner

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.

Nate Saint

You will never make a missionary of the person who does no good at home. He that will not serve the Lord in the Sunday school at home, will not win children to Christ in China.

C.H. Spurgeon  (34.522)

I must learn to relate everything to the primary goal, maintaining it without interruption.

Oswald Chambers

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord  (for we walk by faith, not by sight); we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.  Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him. 

Paul (2 Corinthians 5:6 –9)

The key to the missionary’s devotion is that he is attached to nothing and to no one except our Lord Himself. It does not mean simply being detached from the external things surrounding us. Our Lord was amazingly in touch with the ordinary things of life, but He had an inner detachment except toward God. External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally.

The duty of a faithful missionary is to concentrate on keeping his soul completely and continually open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. The men and women our Lord sends out on His endeavors are ordinary human people, but people who are controlled by their devotion to Him, which has been brought about through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers