Top 45 Christian Missionary Quotes
#1. When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
Deepak Chopra
#2. I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.
Daniel Everett
#3. Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey
Marmaduke William Pickthall
#4. 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.
Carl Jung
#5. What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.
David Sills
#6. The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.
Pope Francis
#7. Because even then I was ill at ease with the commitment to spiritual imperialism which most Christians feel to be the sine qua non of being Christian, as if one could not be a true Christian without being a militant missionary.
Alan W. Watts
#8. Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
A.B. Simpson
#10. The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
Pope Benedict XVI
#12. Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
Freya Stark
#13. To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.
Amanda Smith
#15. A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.
Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
#17. The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
Amy Carmichael
#18. A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology
John Piper
#20. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
Pope Francis
#22. Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.
Louie Giglio
#23. Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation
David Shibley
#24. My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.
Stefne Miller
#25. Taking into account the different approaches to defining the term 'missionary' we can define a missionary as a Christian believer who takes the gospel to those who have never heard it before.
Marius Olivier
#28. This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!
Keith Green
#32. Nothing can happen to me that hasn't gone through His hand first. If He wants to deliver me, He will. If He doesn't, He has a good reason for it.
Dalaina May
#33. The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
A.B. Simpson
#34. The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!
Hudson Taylor
#35. Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here.
Aline Ohanesian
#36. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting
it has been found wanting, and not tried.
Os Guinness
#38. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the "currency" of our good works is debased and worthless before God.
Jerry Bridges
#39. The business of the missionary, and the business of the Christian Church in any situation, is to challenge the plausibility structure in the light of God's revelation of the real meaning of history.
Lesslie Newbigin
#40. 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.
Charles Studd
#41. Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians
Leonard Ravenhill
#42. The Great Commission is the primary task the Lord left his church. The church must always be a missionary church; the Christian must always be a world Christian.
William J. Larkin Jr.
#43. Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?
Rick Santorum
#44. I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.
John Piper
#45. If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
Hudson Taylor