"When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him."
-- Alan Redpath
"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God." -- William Carey
The simple gravestone of Carey reads:
"A wretched poor and helpless worm on thy kind arms I fall."
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose"
— Jim Elliot
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
— C.T. Studd
"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed"
— Hudson Taylor
"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?"
— William Borden
"Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." — Kurt von Schleicher
"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." — Amy Carmichael
"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" — Roland Allen
'Not called!' did you say?
'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.
— William Booth
"The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world." — A. B. Simpson
"What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?"
— Eleanor Roat
"Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage pagans of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in Thy service, and to promote Thy kingdom."
--David Brainerd