30 Classic Quotes Of 20th Century Preachers

The very last instruction Christ gave to His disciples (the great commission) was to "Go and Make disciples of all nations...without a limit. The contemporary Church seems to have relaxed and the passion for souls is gradually being extinguished. The interest of most preachers seem to have shifted from Making Disciples of all Nations to Making Millionaires of all Peoples.

Souls no longer matter as much as money do. Here are 30 quotes from men who gave their all to the missions, hopefully this will reveal God's priorities and reignite the passion for souls.

1. "You have one business on Earth - to save souls." -- John Wesley

2. "Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone."  --  David Livingston

3. "I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light"  --  John Keith Falconer

4. "God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor

5. "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." -- C.T. Studd

6. "We can give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"  -- Alexander Duff

7. "If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God."  --  Oswald J. Smith

8. "If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor

9. "Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" -- William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions

10. "The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." -- Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

11. "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador

12. "We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it" -- P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

13. "In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone

14. "Can't you do just a little bit more?" -- J.G. Morrison pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries

15. "Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us." -- Keith Wright

16. "The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission

17. "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

18. "No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith

19. "This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green

20. "There is nothing in the world or the Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement

21. "If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death." -- Dave Davidson

22. "If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Groom (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

 23. "World missions was on God's mind from the beginning." -- Dave Davidson

24. "Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" -- Bob Pierce, World Vision founder

25. "No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" -- William Borden

26. "The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." -- unknown

27. When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

28. "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 Spurgeon

29. "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor, missionary to China

30. "The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry


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