John Wesley Quotes

Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son, that one day he takes a banner, the banner of Jesus Christ, and he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed a banner before, and he cries out, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' even if it costs my son his life.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

We need more missionaries - more worthy missionaries.

You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service.

We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

I use my sport and my talent as a tool to spread God's word. Whatever I get out of it, all glory goes to Him.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.

The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.