Missionary quotes are always useful for people on the mission field or those considering plunging into the world of missions. It’s encouraging to see what other renowned people have said about missionary work.
The truth also is that as Christians, we have all being called to be a missionary. Missionary work is not just limited to taking the gospel to foreign or 3rd world countries. Mission work is all about obeying Jesus’ commandment; Go into the world and disciple nations. You can be at work, school or wherever you are and still witness to people. Your own country, your own neighborhood, sometimes your own family could be your mission field.
Everywhere we go, we should be representing the Kingdom of God. Here are some great missionary quotes about mission written by great men and women.
Missionary Quotes by David Livingston
“God had only one son and he was a missionary”- David Livingstone.
“I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.”- David Livingstone
“The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.”- David Livingstone
“For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.”- David Livingstone
Missionary Quotes by Robert C. Shannon
“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
Missionary Quotes by V.S. Carnes
“There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility. “Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love, than a country just recently ravaged by war? Where better to be kidnapped and sold into slavery than a country just recently ravaged by war?” with a discernible sneer.”- V.S. Carnes
Missionary Quotes by David A. Bednar
“The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christ-like example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts.” –David A. Bednar
Missionary Quotes by John Willis Zumwalt
“We are called to proclaim His Great Salvation and rescue the captives but we are busy spending 33 billion a year in diet products for ourselves or for our overweight cats. We are busy redecorating our temporal housing, spending every evening for our own pleasure, and every spare dollar for our own retirement. Somehow the unreached in their life and death eternal struggle slip our minds and concern. We never get around to being serious about Jesus and his command to take the good news to them.”- John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God.
Missionary Quotes by John Wesley
“You have one business on earth – to save souls.”- John Wesley
“Untold millions are still untold.”- John Wesley
Missionary Quotes by Amy Carmichael
“God holds us to that which drew us first when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”- Amy Carmichael, God’s Missionary
Missionary Quotes by James Hudson Taylor
“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 afterward, and He much prefers doing so.”- James Hudson Taylor
Missionary Quotes by Adorinam Judson
“I wish you believe, not for my profit, but for yours. I daily pray the true God give you light, that you may believe. Whether you will ever believe in this world I do not know, but when you die I know you will believe what I now say. You will then appear before the God you now deny.” – Adorinam Judson to his Burman teacher.
Missionary Quotes by John Willis Zumwalt
“We call ourselves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives”- John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God
Missionary Quotes by Criss Jami
“The evangelist is the world’s hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.”- Criss Jami, Healology
Missionary Quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
“For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.”- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.”- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
“We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.”- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
“Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.”- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
“The better we serve, the greater the fulfillment.”- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Missionary Quotes by Thomas S. Monson
“Missionary work is a priesthood duty – an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much.”- Thomas S. Monson
Missionary Quotes by John Willis Zumwalt
“One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.”– John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God
“He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.”- John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God
Missionary Quotes by Mikhail Khorev
“Living according to God’s truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Living according to God’s truth means not following the crowd and not being dismayed when even your friends misunderstand you. For the God whom you serve will have the final word. On the day of judgment, he will speak the final word over the whole of your life.”- Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
“To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God’s law. This is why Christians have a choice to make, either to trade in their loyalty to God for freedom from persecution or to remain true to Christ and consequently run the risk of persecution.” Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
Missionary Quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.”- Charles Spurgeon
“Someone asked, Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved.”– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Missionary Quotes by Winkey Pratney
“Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.”- Winkey Pratney
Missionary Quotes by Kirk Cameron
“If you had the cure to cancer wouldn’t you share it? You have the cure to death. Get out there and share it!!!”- Kirk Cameron
Missionary Quotes by Oswald Chambers
“The thing that makes a missionary is the sight of what Jesus did on the cross and to have heard Him say, Go!” Oswald Chambers
Missionary Quotes by Oswald J. Smith
“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.”- Oswald J. Smith
“The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.”- Oswald J. Smith
Missionary Quotes by Ann Dunagan
“Missions is practicing God’s presence until His passion compels us to obey.”- Ann Dunagan
Whether you are a missionary or not, reading missionary quotes gave you a deeper understanding of what it really means to be a missionary and encouraged those of you that are already taking the gospel of Christ to the nations. Ask God to give you a hunger and passion for populating his kingdom with souls, at home, at work, and wherever you go in life.