God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.
God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.
I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat across the table from people who were - were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.
If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology
Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men. . . . This is what God expects of us
None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.
Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.
Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.
In order to do well, missionary work has to be totally positive.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him. . . When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.