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"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" - Roderick Davis

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"People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South." - J. Howard Edington

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"I believe that in each generation God has called' enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth…. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" - Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

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"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." - Nate Saint, missionary martyr

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"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

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"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." - Mike Stachura

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"Go, send, or disobey." - John Piper

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"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

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"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

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"Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." - Kurt von Schleicher

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"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." - Oswald J. Smith

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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."

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"Sympathy is no substitute for action." - David Livingstone

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"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" - William Carey

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"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." - Hudson Taylor

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"The greater the extent that you go to fulfill the Great Commission in your life, the greater extent you will see God at work in your life." - Thom Wolf

New Weekly Feature: MQotW

I would like to make a new weekly feature called "Missions Quote of the Week" spotlighting quotes from previous missionaries or contemporary quotes regarding missions.

I'd like to kick this off with my all time favorite quote from Jim Elliott:

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot loose."