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I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.
Sep 29, 2025
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
Plan for the worst, expect the best.
We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
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.
I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'
Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
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.
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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.
Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.
All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
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.
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.
I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.