Quotes about Mission

Everybody has a purpose.

The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant his truth for the world.

Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten. Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.

We are winning millions to Christ, one soul at a time. Every single, solitary soul is precious.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

St. Paul did not baptize uninstructed converts apart from a system of mutual responsibility which ensured their instruction.

We should cease to talk of a native church as something to be attained after long years, or generations of probation. There would be native Churches at once which all men would recognize as native.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me (Isaiah 61:1).

Unfaithful in prayer, weak in the working of the Spirit, its witness to Christ a mere formality, and unfaithful to its worldwide mission—such are the marks of a powerless church.