"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." - Jesus (John 12:24 24)
"For to me, living is for Christ, and dying is even better." - The Apostle Paul (Philippians 1:20-21)
"The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it." -Jesus (Matthew 13:45, 46)
"But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ and may be found in him..." The Apostle Paul (Philippians 3:7-9)
"If you want to be my follower you must love me more than your own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters - yes, more than your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. And you cannot be my disciple if you do not carry your own cross and follow me." - Jesus (Luke 14:26, 27)
"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light" -- John Keith Falconer
"Called to Go... But Not Necessarily to Come Back." - an unknown Journeyman
"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot
"I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ." -- Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone
"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
"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith
"No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" -- William Borden
"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers" -- Nina Gunter
"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" -- Bob Pierce
"Sympathy is no substitute for action." -- David Livingstone
"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry
"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura
"The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." -- unknown
"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." -- Henry Martyn
"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith
"What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?" -- Eleanor Roat
"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael
"We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why." -- William Wallace in the movie Braveheart
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