Quotes on Missionary Life

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.