Quotes about Mission

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

and though we living in a civilized country where Christianity is protected by law, are not called to suffer these things while we continue here, yet I question whether all are justified in staying here, while so many are perishing without means of grace in other lands.

Secondly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be confined to the apostles, then all such ordinary ministers who have endeavoured to carry the gospel to the heathens, have acted without a warrant, and run before they were sent.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.

I longed to spend and be spent for God.

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

19th March, 1872.—Birthday. My Jesus, my king, my life, my all; I again dedicate my whole self to Thee. Accept me, and grant, Gracious Father, that ere this year is gone I may finish my task. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen, so let it be.