I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages--villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in this world. - Robert Moffat (great Bible translator in South Africa in the 1800s.)
Sympathy is no substitute for action. - David Livingstone, missionary to Africa (son-in-law of Robert Moffat)
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering. - Adoniram Judson
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. - Hudson Taylor
Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God. - William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. - John Piper
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
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."
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. - William Cameron Townsend
