"If you are sick, fast and pray;

If the language is hard to learn, fast and pray;

If the people will not hear you, fast and pray;

If you have nothing to eat, fast and pray."

-Frederick Franson

"If you'll ask me why I went to Africa, I'll tell you I went primarily to improve on the justice of God. I didn't think it was right for anybody to go to hell without a chance to be saved. . .If you'll analyze what I just told you, do you know what it is? It's humanism. I was simply using the provisions of Jesus Christ as a means to improve upon human conditions of suffering and misery. . . When I got to Africa, I discovered that they weren't poor, ignorant, little heathen running around in the woods, waiting for- looking for someone to tell them how to go to Heaven. . . . They were living in utter and total defiance of far more knowledge of God than I ever dreamed they had. . . . I went out there motivated by humanism. . . . I didn't want my fellow humans to suffer in hell eternally after such a miserable existance on earth. . . . I wrestled with God, . . . coming to grips with the fact that the people I thought were ignorant and wanted to go to Heaven . . . had no interest in the Bible and no interest in Christ. . .and I wanted to come home. . . . As I faced God honestly with what my heart felt, it seemed to me I heard Him say, 'Yes, will not the Judge of all the earth do right? The heathen are lost and they're going to go to hell, not because they haven't heard the Gospel. They're going to go to hell because they are sinners who loved their sin and because they deserved hell, . . . but I didn't send you out there for their sakes. . . I sent you to Africa for My sake. They deserved hell, but I loved them. And I endured the agonies of hell for them. . . I sent you out there for Me. Do I not deserve the reward of My suffering? Don't I deserve those for whom I died?'" -Paris Reidhead

Favorite Quotes

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies." -J. Hudson Taylor

"The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner." -William Cameron Townsend

"Christians don't tell lies; they just go to church and sing them." -A.W. Tozer

"I have talked to people that have no assurance of sins forgiven. They wanna feel saved before they're willing to commit themselves to Christ. But I believe that the only ones whom God actually witnesses by His Spirit are born of Him are the people, whether they say it or not, that come to Jesus Christ and say something like this: 'Lord Jesus, I'm gonna obey You and love You and serve You and do what You want me to do as long as I live, even if I go to hell at the end of the road, simply because You are worthy to be loved, obeyed and served. And I'm not trying to make a deal with You.'"               -Paris Reidhead

"I believe in verbal inspiration, and that God could have said 'be sent' if He had wished it, instead of 'go.'"  -J. Hudson Taylor

"Don't put yourself in a position to see how good your resistance is." -Jim Elliot

"And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives, and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."- Nate Saint

"If I was to ask you tonight, 'were you saved?' Do you say,'Yes, I am saved'-When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and. . .' Are you saved? What are you saved from? Hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?"-Leonard Ravenhill

"All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient." -William Carey

"The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed- in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth. But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland." -Robert Savage

"Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary." -C.T. Studd

"When I get to China, I will have no claim on anyone for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone." -J.Hudson Taylor

"If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the Gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the Gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the Gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged."     -C.Gordon Olson

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

"The church of Jesus Christ is largely sleeping, like a great bedroom and you have all the Christians in bed and they're all sleeping. . . and they're saying, 'Please, don't wake me up! I want to sleep on!' And of course, when God starts to operate a revival, people cannot sleep- you can't sleep in church when the Spirit of God awakes the people! . . .Wake it up! You're sleepy Christians!"- Ian Paisley

"Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions." -Leonard Ravenhill

"While vast continents are shrouded in darkness, the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field." -Ion Keith-Falconer

"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."         -Jim Elliot

"The use of means ought not to lesson our faith in God, and our faith in God ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes." J. Hudson Taylor

"We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first."-Oswald J. Smith

"If we are going to wait until every possible hindrance has been removed before we do a work for the Lord, we will never attempt to do anything." -T. J. Bach

"There's no room for Him in the inn. He got a bit older, there was no room in His family- His family turned on Him. He went to the temple, no room in the temple- the temple turned on Him. And when He died, there was no room to bury Him. He died outside the city. Well why . . . do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it that the world couldn't get along with the holiest Man that ever lived and it can get along with you and me? Are we compromised?. . . Have we no spiritual stature? Have we no righteousness that reflects on their corruption?" -Leonard Ravenhill

"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth." -James O. Fraser

"God is going to give me a specific leading- not when I ask for it, but when I need it, and not until then." -Jim Elliot

"The way I see it, we ought to be willing to die. In the military, we were taught that to obtain our objectives we had to be willing to be expendable. Missionaries must face that same expendability."        -Nate Saint

"How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves."         -C. T. Studd

"Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus '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.'"- C. H. Spurgeon

"Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death with Christ? Why should a person be willing to go in identification down to the cross and into the tomb and up again? I'll tell you why! Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!" -Paris Reidhead

"Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slavetrade carries the trader?" -David Livingstone

"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to HIm, the more intensly missionary we become." -Henry Martin

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot

"One of the most miserable places to be spiritually is to have enough of Christ to be miserable with the things of the world and enough of the world to be uncomfortable with the things of Christ."                   -Stephen Jones (quoting Bob Jones, Sr.)

"He could send thousands of angels to spread the Gospel, but He chooses you and me." -G.S Nair

"Dying for Christ is just as effective as living for Him." Robert G. Gromacki (New Testament Survey 262)

"Go I must or guilt will rest on my soul!" -William Carey

"I don't think we are in any danger, and if we are, we might as well die suddenly in God's work as by some long drawn-out illness at home."-Eleanor Chestnut

"True faith glories in the present tense, and does not trouble itself about the future." -James O. Fraser

"The safest place for yourself and the children is in the path of duty." Jonathan Goforth (to his wife)

"Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees." J. Hudson Taylor (to Jonathan Goforth)

"God does most of His work here by half-dead bodies, but alive in Christ." -Mary Slesser

"Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees." -James O. Fraser

" I know that my hopes and plans for myself could not be any better than He has arranged and fulfilled them. Thus may we all find it, and know the truth of the Word which says, 'He will be our Guide even until death.'"-Jim Elliot

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman." -Elisabeth Elliot