What motivates me

If God calls you to be a missionary, don’t stoop to be a king.

Jordan Grooms

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

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

We talk of the Second Coming;

half the world has never heard of the first.

Oswald J. Smith

There is nothing in the world or the Church --

except the church's disobedience --

to render the evangelization of the world

in this generation an impossibility.

Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement

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."

Every man is a missionary,

now and forever,

for good or for evil,

whether he intends or designs it or not.

He may be a blot

radiating his dark influence outward

to the very circumference of society,

or he may be a blessing

spreading benediction

over the length and breadth of the world.
Thomas Chalmers

Lost people matter to God,

and so they must matter to us.

Keith Wright