I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.
We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.
Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?
Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.
Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.
I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
The Church must send or the church will end.
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.
Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.