Quotes about Mission

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

We bring God glory by telling others about him.

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, "We've got enough people, we've got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have." That church is, in reality, actually saying, "The rest of the world can go to hell. We don't care.

If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.