"To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him." 

— John Piper

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

— C.T. Studd

"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" 

— Bob Pierce World Vision founder

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

— Hudson Taylor

"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small."

— Pat Morley

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."

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." 

— Hudson Taylor

"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." 

— John Piper

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" 

— Jim Elliot

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" 

— Hudson Taylor

"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