Quotes About Christian Missions

#1. I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

William Howard Taft

#2. I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

Graham Coxon

#3. It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Richard Lugar

#4. There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

John Piper

#5. The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

John Green

#6. We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.

Landa Cope

#7. I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

Alan Davies

#8. 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

#9. An unread book is just a block of paper.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.

Jihan El-Tahri

#11. My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

Gerry Lindgren

#12. Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.

Walker Percy

#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

#14. A high view of God's sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God's sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

David Platt

#15. God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

David Sills

#16. Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

Leonard Ravenhill

#17. Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

Stephen Davey

#18. If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. As we stand on the precipice of a life of ministry, we will have to answer the question that Jesus poses to each one of us: Are you willing to count the cost?

Erica Mbasan

#20. Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.

Nancy Pearcey

#21. For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.

Paul Arden

#22. The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

#23. Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

Pope Francis

#24. Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

Gloria Furman

#25. Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

John M. Perkins

#26. Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

John R.W. Stott