Top 100 Missionary God Quotes
#1. God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission ... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.
Leonard Sweet
#2. In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called to pursue the work of Jesus himself, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit"
Pope Benedict XVI
#3. God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
Hudson Taylor
#4. God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.
George Otis
#5. I want to demonstrate the love of God through my medical missionary endeavors, solely out of appreciation and not trying to work my way to heaven.
Warren Frankel
#6. I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.
Clayton Christensen
#7. Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.
Matt Chandler
#8. Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times ...
If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.
Max Lucado
#9. If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.
Edward Lawlor
#10. God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.
Thomas Hale
#11. In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
Archibald Alexander
#12. Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.
Ann Dunagan
#14. That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#15. 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
#16. You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.
Addie Zierman
#17. Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.
Matthew Tindal
#19. William Carey, the great Baptist missionary, said, "Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God.
Angus Buchan
#21. 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.'
Gladys Aylward
#22. God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.
John Piper
#24. Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.
Keith Wright
#26. True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work
David O. McKay
#27. Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.
Louie Giglio
#28. The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
Oswald Chambers
#30. God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.
David Sills
#31. The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.
Pope Francis
#32. 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
#33. Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
David Bosch
#34. Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.
Nick Frost
#36. 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
#37. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.
Oswald J. Smith
#38. Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
Janet Evanovich
#39. From the beginning God's people are to be "missionary." They are chosen to be a channel of blessing to others. But in order to be a missionary people they have to be formed to be like the promise they carry.
Craig G. Bartholomew
#40. If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.
Charles Spurgeon
#41. Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.
William Carey
#42. Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.
Peter Marshall
#43. God is making commerce His missionary.
Joseph Cook
#44. 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
#45. He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.
Michel Faber
#46. My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
Charles Studd
#47. A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
Kevin Baggett
#49. A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology
John Piper
#50. When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
David Sills
#51. As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.
J.L. Ewen
#52. It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.
Abul A'la Maududi
#53. I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
David Livingstone
#54. I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
James O. Fraser
#55. If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations - brought forth by the same deity.
David G. McAfee
#56. God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
Elisabeth Elliot
#57. I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
Watchman Nee
#58. The Jabalites ... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.
Mark Twain
#59. Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
John Piper
#60. The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas
it has never been before!
John Willis Zumwalt
#61. 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
#62. I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
David Livingstone
#63. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
David Livingstone
#64. Mission and missions must be the consuming passion of the whole church of God and not the exclusive domain of an elite missionary regiment. Only then will the church be like a city set on a hill which cannot be hidden. Only then will the fullest meaning of mission as the light of God be realized.
John Mark Terry
#65. If you are called as a missionary - a "sent-out one" - then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God's love - a love that never dies - through you.
Heidi Baker
#66. Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
John Piper
#69. I am very defective in all duties ... In prayer I wander and am formal ... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
William Carey
#70. God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.
David Bryant
#71. The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
F. E. Marsh
#72. I've always wondered though," Orn mused aloud, "what does God need with a starship?"
"Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?"
"Until they learn a new position.
Sabrina Zbasnik
#73. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
Robert C. Shannon
#74. Missions is not just for missionaries; God's call is for all.
Ann Dunagan
#75. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
Robert Pierce
#76. God's mission for the family is expanding God's family.
Ann Dunagan
#77. He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.
Alan Paton
#78. Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men ... This is what God expects of us
John Taylor
#79. God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.
Daniel Palmer
#80. This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.
M. Russell Ballard
#82. What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.
David Sills
#83. A banker can be as called and as pleasing to God as Billy Graham may be when he preaches. A brewer can serve as valuable a role in the kingdom of God as a missionary, a priest, or a pope. This is the truth of Christianity and this, too, is a core truth of the Guinness story.
Stephen Mansfield
#84. The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history.
Craig Van Gelder
#85. Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ...
Joseph Smith Jr.
#86. God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
Amy Carmichael
#87. An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?
Annie Dillard
#88. To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
William Carey
#89. I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
Isobel Miller Kuhn
#90. God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.
James Hudson Taylor
#91. Prayer is lifting up empty hands to an abundant God. Harvey Kneisel, missionary
Mary Ann Bridgwater
#92. I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'
Andrew Van Der Bijl
#93. Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
James Hudson Taylor
#94. In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.
Dick Eastman
#95. God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
Mark E. Petersen
#96. If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.'
Neil L. Andersen
#97. It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
John R. Mott
#98. God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
Oswald Chambers
#99. 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
#100. 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
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