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Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
Sep 29, 2025
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
This generation can only reach this generation.
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
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.
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
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.
Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.
When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.
I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
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.
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.
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.
For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.
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.