#missionary

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

#death

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today. ↗

— John Piper

#life

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. ↗

— Oswald J. Smith

#life

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#because #believe #better #business #care

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#disciple #love #missionary #tragic #love

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#i #i think #missionary #persuasive #stubborn

If God’s love is for anybody anywhere, it’s for everybody everywhere. ↗

— Edward Lawlor

#love

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

#heaven #hell #missionary #death

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world. ↗

— John Piper

#love #mission #missionary #missions #love