Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, ʻI would. . . but ye would not. ʼ
The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?
I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.
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.
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.
My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.
Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.