"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot,
"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
"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
"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." --John Piper
"'Not called!' did you say?'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. -- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor
"The Great Commission1 is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor
"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor
Adoniram Judson
"The prospects are bright as the promises of God."
Mary Slessor wrote to a friend who had long prayed for her: "I have always said that I have no idea how or why God has carried me over so many funny and hard places, and made these hordes of people submit to me, or why the Government should have given me the privilege of a Magistrate among them, except in answer to prayer made at home for me. It is all beyond my comprehension. The only way I can explain it is on the ground that I have been prayed for more than most. Pray on, dear one — the power lies that way."
On another occasion she wrote: "Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service — praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom."
As for her rewards, she had but one question: "What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?"
Monday, July 14, 2008
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