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#1

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: big-picture, close-up, details, fine, trick, truth

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#2

“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.”
― Hudson Taylor

tags: christianity, missionary, prayer

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#3

“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

tags: cross, drawn, first, god, important, missionary, primary

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#4

“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.”
― Hudson Taylor

tags: funds, god, missionary, need, provide, purpose, supply

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#5

“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, God's Missionary

tags: christian, disciple, love, missionary, tragic

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#6

“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

tags: god, heaven, hell, missionary

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#7

“Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.”
― William Booth

tags: missionary

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#8

“The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.”
― David Livingstone

tags: missionary

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#9

“Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

tags: amy-carmichael, example, inspirational, love, missionary, ponnammal, servant, service

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#10

“Free will is a gift that Satan works to twist into a curse.”
― Kasey Norton, Sojourner: 31 days of wandering wherever God leads

tags: christian, inspirational, missionary, nonfiction

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#11

“Man is a missionary.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: man, missionary, motivational

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#12

“Learn to trust His heart when you cannot trace His hand,”
― M. David Sillis

tags: christianity, missiology, missionary

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#13

“A man would require a brave heart, indeed, to ask any woman he loved to share the hardships and dangers of a missionary's life.”
― Grace Livingston Hill, An Unwilling Guest

tags: missionary

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#14

“These things may sound trivial, but they are signs of adjustment in our human aspect of life. We are just your average family. I’m happy to report we’re all saved by grace and living in His power. Because of the unique culture we live in, we face different struggles in this earthly journey. It is always fun to sit back and marvel at how God will work out each of the situations that distract us from fellowship with Him. These distractions can strengthen us in our walk if we allow God to take hold. Or, they can keep us away from our source of life and strength: God, our maker.”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

tags: africa, chronic-illness, inspirational, missionary

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#15

“I can’t give this letter a storybook ending in the world’s eyes. Today finds Bob back to his regular schedule and the boys spending extra time talking with me flopped across the foot of my bed, which seems to be my permanent residence for now. My head symptoms have not changed. The medication has not settled well, and so the struggle continues. Whether I am in the valley or soaring above the mountain tops, God is there with me. I thank God that I am able to be His child. Now that’s a true storybook ending!”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

tags: africa, inspirational, missionary

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#16

“For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.”
― David Livingstone

tags: christianity, god, grace, jesus-christ, missionary, suffering, trials

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#17

“We are called to proclaim His great Salvation and rescue the captives…. But we are busy spending 33 billion a year in diet products for ourselves or for our over weight cats. We are busy redecorating our temporal housing, We are spending every evening for our own pleasure, and every spare dollar for our won retirement. And somehow the unreached in their life and death eternal struggle slip our minds and concern… we never get around to being serious about Jesus and his command to take the good news to them.”
― John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God

tags: missionary, missions, retirement, unreached

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#18

“We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives”
― John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God

tags: followers, missionary, unreached

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#19

“It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: christianity, missionary

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#20

“The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas
it has never been before!”
― John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God

tags: church, kingdom-of-god, missionary

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#21

“I wish you believe, not for myprofit, but for yours. I daily pray the true God give you light, that you may believe. Whether you will ever believe in tis world I do not know, but when you die I know you will believe what I now say. You will then appear before God you now deny. - Adorinam Judson to his Burman teacher.”
― Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson

tags: adorinam-judson, baptist, biography, god, missionary

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#22

“Missionary work is a priesthood duty - an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: missionary, priesthood

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#23

“A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: christian-life, destiny, determined-spirit, duty, education, excellence, faith, great, greatness, hope, inspiration, leadership, mission, missionary, performance, philosophy, sacred, spirit, spirituality, team-spirit, volunteering, wise-words, work, working

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#24

“He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.”
― John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God

tags: character-of-god, justice, love, missionary

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#25

“One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.”
― John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God

tags: church, great-commission, missionary, orthodoxy

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#26

“For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: accomplish-great-things, christian, divine-grace, dreams, faith, goal, goal-setting, grace, hope, inner-strength, inspirational, life-lessons, mission, missionary, motivation, purpose, success-living, success-self-improvement, uplifting, visions, volunteerism

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#27

“We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: answered-prayer, be-filled-with-power-ofgod, capable, dream, encouragement, faith, grace, grace-of-god, holy-spirit, hope, imagination, inspiration, mighty-power, mission, missionary, motivation, movement, possibel, self-confidence, self-esteem, spiritual

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#28

“Living according to God's truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Living according to God's truth means not following the crowd and not being dismayed when even your friends misunderstand you. For the God whom you serve will have the final word. On the day of judgement he will speak the final word over the whole of your life.”
― Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp

tags: christianity, church, inspirational, missionaries, missionary, prison, russian-christian, underground-church

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#29

“Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: humanity, inspirational, life, mankind, missionary, opportunity, service, volunteerism, working, working-together, working-with-people

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#30

“O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: answered-prayer, calling-people, christian, desire, destny, divine, fate, gods-grace, higher-power, inspirational, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, lessons-in-life, life-lessons, life-philosophy, mission, missionary, motivation, pray, purpose, saved-form-sin, seek, self, souls, spiritual, warrior

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