Who Said That

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"... if God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you... remember it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or Samuel." -- Gladys Aylward

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"So on I go, not knowing, I would not if I might; I'd rather walk in the dark with God than go alone in the light; I'd rather walk by faith with him than go alone by sight." -- Philip Paul Bliss

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"God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith." -- Andrew Bonar

"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog - the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see." -- Carrie Ten Boom

"No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets." -- William Borden

"I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ." -- David Brainerd

"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 are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it." -- Phineas Bresee

"As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer." -- Bill Bright

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God." -- William Carey

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"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

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." -- Oswald Chambers

"After we receive God's comfort through His Word, then we are asked to give this comfort to someone else." -- Leona Choy

"Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived." -- Shane Claiborne

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." -- Lillian Dickson
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"The right arm of every church should be missions." -- Fred S. Donnelson

"I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares." -- Alexander Duff

"We are dependent on God, not only for redemption itself but for our faith in the Redeemer; not only for the gift of His Son but for the Holy Ghost for our conversion." -- Jonathan Edwards

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"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -- Jim Eliot

"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth."  -- James O. Fraser

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"All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!" -- Jonathan Goforth

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"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with." -- Billy Graham

"A living crusade ... the truth of the gospel." -- Franklin Graham

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green

"I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to." -- Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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

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"If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy,  I could not have survived my accumulated suffering."  -- Adoniram Judson

"Are we as Christians willing to sacrifice for the cause we say we believe in?" -- Warren Larson

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"The gospel is the good news. It is not a new set of obligations or duties to be performed - new strivings - more agonizings - but rather an announcement of what has been done for us. We do not present the claims of the gospel. We present a wonderful free offer by God Himself to the sinner who believes." -- Lance Latham

"We are all missionaries. Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ." -- Eric Liddell

"Lay any burden upon me; only sustain me. Send me anywhere; only go with me. Sever any tie, but that one which binds me to Thy service and to Thy heart." -- David Livingstone

"I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." -- Martin Luther

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

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"Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us." -- Robert McCheyne

"What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?" -- Malla Moe

"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been." -- Robert Moffat

"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." -- Dwight Lyman Moody

"I hope no missionary will be as lonely as I have been."  -- Lottie (Charlotte) Moon

"Now Mr. Morrison do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the Chinese Empire?" "No sir," said Morrison, "but I expect that God will."  -- Robert Morrison

"The Yukos didn't particularly want me to stay, but God did. And I would have to follow God." -- Bruce Olson

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"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart." -- Bob Pierce

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"it is very much easier to do what God made you for than not." -- Jackie Pullinger

"Any method of evangelism will work, if God is in it." -- Leonard Ravenhill

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"A mission focus looks first at those who are outside the church before it ever looks at the internal needs of the church." -- Martin Robinson

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"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¡Kand when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." -- Nate Saint

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"They cry in the night; they perish in the darkness." -- Harmon F. Schmelzenbach

"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." -- Albert Schweitzer

"But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect." -- David Shenk

"We are not trying to raise up more money; we're trying to raise up better men. We are not trying to raise up cash; we're trying to raise up Christians." -- B. Clayton Shumpert

"From my many years' experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross."  -- Sadhu Sundar Singh

"When you think of the woman's power, you forget the power of the woman's God. I shall go on." -- Mary Slessor

"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith

"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

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for." -- Charles Spurgeon

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

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T. Studd

"Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his." -- Billy Sunday

"Faith is watching God work while you are on your knees." -- John Sung

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." -- Hudson Taylor

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"Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less." -- William Cameron Townsend

"Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them." -- Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

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"...the freedom and joy in Christ...a liberating message and life style. It is something that can be declared clearly, demonstrated powerfully and experienced daily." -- Enoch Wan

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"You have one business on earth - to save souls." -- John Welsey

"I am willing to go anywhere, at anytime, to do anything for Jesus." -- Luther Wishard

"Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death." -- George Whitefield

"The secret of following God's will is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best." -- K.P. Yohannan

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"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." -- Count Zinzendorf

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