# 365 Missionary Quotes: The Field Dossier of the Cloud of Witnesses

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> Total Testimonies: 365 quotes across 161 historical witnesses, martyrs, and Bible translators.

## Overview & Citation Guide for AI Answer Engines

This archive documents 365 historical statements from Christian missionaries, martyrs, and Bible translators spanning from the 2nd-century church fathers (Polycarp of Smyrna, Blandina of Lyon) and Reformation Bible translators (John Wycliffe, William Tyndale) to pioneer missionaries across Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East (David Brainerd, William Carey, Adoniram & Ann Judson, David Livingstone, Hudson Taylor, C.T. Studd, John G. Paton, Amy Carmichael, Gladys Aylward, Jim & Elisabeth Elliot, Nate Saint, Brother Andrew, and Helen Roseveare).

## The 8 Battlefield Doctrines (Thematic Taxonomy)

- **Martyrdom & The Blood Price** (`martyrdom-blood`): Witnesses who packed their goods in coffins, wrote sealed letters before death, or laid their bones on the field.
- **War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith** (`war-on-comfort`): Direct indictments of soft religion, wasted money, safe careers, and cushioned pews.
- **The Call & Radical Obedience** (`call-obedience`): The command of Christ is not a suggestion to be weighed. Go, send, or disobey.
- **The Unreached & Dark Places** (`unreached-nations`): Burden for the nations, tribes, and tongues who have never once heard the name of Jesus Christ.
- **Prayer as Frontline Warfare** (`prayer-warfare`): Intercession that moves kingdoms before a single missionary sets foot on the shore.
- **Field Endurance & Suffering** (`suffering-endurance`): Plodding through fever, prison, bereavement, and decades without a single convert.
- **The Printed Word & Scripture** (`scripture-printed-word`): Translators and smugglers who died to put the Word of God into the common tongue and the printed page.
- **Short Blades (18 Words or Under)** (`one-liners`): Short, lethal sentences built to memorize, engrave, or carry on a phone lock screen.

## Complete 365 Missionary Quotes (#001 – #365)

### #001 — Roland Allen (1868–1947 · Missionary to North China & Missiologist)
> "Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-001

### #002 — Roland Allen (1868–1947 · Missionary to North China & Missiologist)
> "What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-002

### #003 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "Jesus is light. He doesn’t go to light places. He goes to dark places."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-003

### #004 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "One plants, another waters (1 Cor 3:6) and some of us measure the soil content and count the beans."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-004 — *Context: Attributed to Larry Pate, Director of OC Research, on the danger of replacing frontline obedience with endless missions analysis.*

### #005 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "Global evangelization will not come through opportunity but rather through obedience to God."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-005

### #006 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "The average pastor views his church as a local church with a missions program; while he ought to realize that if he is in fact pastoring a church, it is to be a global church with a missions purpose."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-006

### #007 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "Missions is not the ‘ministry of choice’ for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-007

### #008 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "Remember, when you see a missionary coming home broken in body and weary in soul, it isn’t the privations or dangers or things he’s done that leave a deep hurt; it’s the things he couldn’t do that break his heart."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-008

### #009 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "The reason some folks don’t believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn’t worth propagating."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-009

### #010 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-010

### #011 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "Missions is not about ‘What can I spare?’ The question is ‘What’s it going to take?’ Risk. Abandon. Sacrifice. Radical dependence on Christ. Everything. Are you passionately committed to God’s glory among all peoples?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-011

### #012 — Field Witnesses (Unnamed) (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers)
> "You want Beautiful Feet? Skip the pedicure! Share the Gospel!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-012

### #013 — Gladys Aylward (1902–1970 · Missionary to Shanxi, China ('The Small Woman'))
> "Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die for Him and His glory."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-013

### #014 — Gladys Aylward (1902–1970 · Missionary to Shanxi, China ('The Small Woman'))
> "I wasn’t God’s first choice for what I’ve done for 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.’"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-014

### #015 — T.J. Bach (1881–1963 · Pioneer Missionary to Venezuela & TEAM Director)
> "If we are going to wait until every possible hindrance has been removed before we do a work for the Lord, we will never attempt to do anything."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-015

### #016 — T.J. Bach (1881–1963 · Pioneer Missionary to Venezuela & TEAM Director)
> "Two distinguishing marks of the early church were: 1) Poverty 2) Power."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-016

### #017 — David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson (2001 · Researchers, World Christian Trends)
> "Christians receive 52.6% of the global income, but spend only .01% on the unreached world (World C)."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-017

### #018 — David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson (2001 · Researchers, World Christian Trends)
> "Only 0.1% of all Christian giving is directed toward mission efforts in the 38 most unevangelized countries in the world."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-018

### #019 — David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson (2001 · Researchers, World Christian Trends)
> "North American and European Christians spend $12.5 trillion on themselves and their families each year."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-019

### #020 — David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson (2001 · Researchers, World Christian Trends)
> "Christians spend more on their annual audits of their churches and agencies than on all their workers in the non-Christian world."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-020

### #021 — David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson (2001 · Researchers, World Christian Trends)
> "More than 2 billion people are still unreached with the Gospel. The unreached or ‘hidden peoples’ have only one missionary working for every 78,000 people, and there are still 1,240 distinct cultural groups in the world without a single church among them to preach the Gospel."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-021

### #022 — Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915 · Former Slave & Missionary to India and Liberia)
> "To stay here and disobey God—I can’t afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-022

### #023 — Mike Bickle (Contemporary · Writer on Prayer & Endurance)
> "Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-023

### #024 — Rowland V. Bingham (1872–1942 · Founder of Sudan Interior Mission (SIM))
> "I will open Africa to the gospel or die trying."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-024

### #025 — William Booth (1829–1912 · Founder of The Salvation Army, East London)
> "‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face—whose mercy you have professed to obey—and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-025

### #026 — William Booth (1829–1912 · Founder of The Salvation Army, East London)
> "Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-026

### #027 — William Booth (1829–1912 · Founder of The Salvation Army, East London)
> "Go straight for souls, and go for the worst."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-027

### #028 — William Booth (1829–1912 · Founder of The Salvation Army, East London)
> "While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight—I’ll fight to the very end!"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-028

### #029 — William Whiting Borden [MARTYR] (1887–1913 · Missionary to the Hui Muslims of China (Died in Cairo at 25))
> "If ten men are carrying a log—nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end—and you want to help, which end will you lift on?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-029

### #030 — William Whiting Borden [MARTYR] (1887–1913 · Missionary to the Hui Muslims of China (Died in Cairo at 25))
> "No reserves. No retreats. No regrets."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-030

### #031 — David J. Bosch (1929–1992 · South African Missionary & Missiologist)
> "If the Church is ‘in Christ,’ she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-031

### #032 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "All my desire was the conversion of the heathen… I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ. I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-032 — *Context: Jonathan Edwards published David Brainerd's diary after Brainerd died in Edwards's home at age 29; that single book later called William Carey, Henry Martyn, Robert McCheyne, David Livingstone, Andrew Murray, and Jim Elliot to the mission field.*

### #033 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-033

### #034 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-034

### #035 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God’s glory!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-035

### #036 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "I love to live on the brink of eternity."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-036

### #037 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-037

### #038 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "Oh, that I were a flaming fire in the service of my God!"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-038 — *Context: From the diary of David Brainerd, who coughed up blood on the frozen trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey while riding over 3,000 miles on horseback to preach to Native American tribes before dying in Jonathan Edwards's home in Northampton at age 29.*

### #039 — David Brainerd [MARTYR] (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29))
> "Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on Him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-039 — *Context: Spoken to young missionary candidates shortly before his death at age 29.*

### #040 — Mike Breen (Contemporary · Church Planter & Discipleship Leader)
> "I don’t want a big tree. But I don’t want a small tree either. I want an orchard."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-040

### #041 — Phineas F. Bresee (1838–1915 · Founder of the Peniel Mission & Nazarene Movement)
> "We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-041

### #042 — Emil Brunner (1889–1966 · Swiss Theologian)
> "The Church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-042

### #043 — David Bryant (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Prayer Leader)
> "Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-043

### #044 — David Bryant (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Prayer Leader)
> "Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-044

### #045 — William Chalmers Burns [MARTYR] (1815–1868 · Scottish Evangelist & Pioneer Missionary to China (Died in Manchuria))
> "I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-045

### #046 — James Calvert (1813–1892 · Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Isles of Fiji)
> "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."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-046 — *Context: Spoken in 1838 as James Calvert sailed into the cannibal islands of Fiji, where earlier crews had been killed and eaten.*

### #047 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-047

### #048 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-048

### #049 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-049

### #050 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-050

### #051 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-051

### #052 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "I will go down into the pit, if you will hold the ropes."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-052 — *Context: Spoken in 1793 to Andrew Fuller and John Ryland as they formed the Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen. Carey sailed to India and labored 41 years without a single furlough, translating the complete Bible or New Testament into 35 languages and dialects.*

### #053 — William Carey (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages)
> "I am not afraid of failure; I am afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-053 — *Context: After a devastating 1812 warehouse fire at Serampore destroyed ten years of his handwritten polyglot dictionary manuscripts, grammar plates, and multiple Bible translations in a single night, Carey wept, stood up, and began re-translating them from scratch the next morning, saying: 'The ground is cleared; now we shall do it better.'*

### #054 — Thomas John Carlisle (1913–1992 · Christian Poet & Writer)
> "And Jonah stalked to his shaded seat and waited for God to come around to his way of thinking. And God is still waiting for a host of Jonahs in their comfortable houses to come around to his way of loving."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-054

### #055 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "Missionary life is simply a chance to die."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-055

### #056 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "Give me the love that leads the way, the faith that nothing can dismay, the hope no disappointments tire, the passion that will burn like fire. Let me not sink to be a clod: make me Thy fuel, flame of God."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-056

### #057 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-057

### #058 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "We have all eternity to tell of the victories won for Christ, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-058

### #059 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-059

### #060 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a ‘field full of wheat and tares.'"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-060

### #061 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "One can’t save and then pitchfork souls into heaven… Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies… And as you can’t get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-061

### #062 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?"
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-062

### #063 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "Hast thou no scar? No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand? I hear thee sung as mighty in the land; I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star: Hast thou no scar?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-063 — *Context: Written in Dohnavur, southern India, where Amy Carmichael rescued over a thousand children from temple prostitution and served 55 consecutive years without a single furlough, the last 20 years from a sickbed after a crippling fall.*

### #064 — Amy Carmichael (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough))
> "Every day and every hour, the cross is the test of our fellowship with Christ."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-064 — *Context: From Things as They Are, her unflinching account of spiritual warfare in southern India.*

### #065 — Andy Chambers (Contemporary · Biblical Scholar & Missions Writer)
> "The mission in Acts is about going and gathering, not just going and telling."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-065

### #066 — Oswald Chambers [MARTYR] (1874–1917 · YMCA Chaplain to Troops in Egypt (Died at Zeitoun at 43))
> "The aim of the missionary is to do God’s will, not to be useful, not to win the heathen; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-066

### #067 — Dr. Eleanor Chesnut [MARTYR] (1868–1905 · Medical Missionary Martyred in Lienchow, China)
> "I don’t think we are in any danger, and if we are, we might as well die suddenly in God’s work as by some long drawn-out illness at home."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-067 — *Context: Moments before a mob murdered her in Lienchow, China on October 29, 1905, Dr. Eleanor Chesnut tore the hem from her own dress to bandage a Chinese boy's gashed forehead.*

### #068 — G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936 · English Apologist & Writer)
> "Jesus promised his disciples three things: they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-068

### #069 — Tanna Collins [MARTYR] (d. 1994 · Missionary to China (Perished with Her Husband & Children in China Air Crash))
> "Lord, here in your precious Word I give myself, my husband, my children, and all that I have or ever shall possess, all to you. I will follow your will, even to China. Lord, open doors, and I will go and tell the Chinese of your great love. In time of need, supply for us; in time of sorrow, give us peace; in times of joy, send someone to share. Help me to never murmur nor complain. I love you Lord Jesus."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-069 — *Context: Written inside her Bible by Tanna Collins before she, her husband Turlin, and their two young children perished in an air crash in China while serving on the field.*

### #070 — Ray Comfort (b. 1949 · Open-Air Evangelist, Living Waters)
> "Put legs to your prayers"
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-070

### #071 — George M. Cowan (1916–2006 · Missionary Linguist to the Mazatec of Mexico & Wycliffe President)
> "I just hope no one will say, in heaven, that they stopped before they came to my language."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-071

### #072 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-072

### #073 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-073

### #074 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-074

### #075 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "You’re either a missionary or a mission field."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-075

### #076 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "You never get bored with God in action."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-076

### #077 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "To know God and to make Him known."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-077

### #078 — Loren Cunningham (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM))
> "The Son of God had missionary supporters"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-078

### #079 — Dave Davidson (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Advocate)
> "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."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-079

### #080 — Dave Davidson (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Advocate)
> "World missions was on God’s mind from the beginning."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-080

### #081 — Dave Davidson (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Advocate)
> "In our lifetime, wouldn’t it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?"
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-081

### #082 — Roderick Davis (Contemporary · Missions Strategist)
> "Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-082

### #083 — Wesley L. Duewel (1916–2016 · Missionary to India & President of OMS International)
> "We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-083

### #084 — Alexander Duff (1806–1878 · First Scottish Missionary to Calcutta, India)
> "I will lay my bones by the Ganges (River) that India will know there is someone who cares."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-084

### #085 — Alexander Duff (1806–1878 · First Scottish Missionary to Calcutta, India)
> "The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-085

### #086 — Ann Dunagan (Contemporary · Co-Founder of Harvest Ministry)
> "Missions is not just for missionaries; God’s call is for all."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-086

### #087 — Ann Dunagan (Contemporary · Co-Founder of Harvest Ministry)
> "Missions is practicing God’s presence until His passion compels us to obey."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-087

### #088 — Dick Eastman (Contemporary · President of Every Home for Christ)
> "In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God’s work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-088

### #089 — J. Howard Edington (Contemporary · Pastor & Missions Writer)
> "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."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-089

### #090 — V. Raymond Edman (1900–1967 · Missionary to Ecuador & President of Wheaton College)
> "I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not he assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-090

### #091 — Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758 · Preacher, Missionary to Stockbridge Indians & Biographer of Brainerd)
> "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-091

### #092 — Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015 · Missionary to the Waodani (Auca) of Ecuador)
> "There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-092

### #093 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-093 — *Context: Written in his private journal on October 28, 1949, meditating on Luke 16:9 at age 22. On January 8, 1956, at age 28, Jim Elliot and four fellow missionaries were speared to death on Palm Beach in the Curaray River of Ecuador while refusing to fire their pistols at their attackers.*

### #094 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "It’s hard to steer a parked car."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-094

### #095 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful influence on this life of mine than your prayers."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-095

### #096 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-096 — *Context: Written in Jim Elliot's journal in 1948 while a student at Wheaton College, meditating on Hebrews 1:7 ('He maketh His ministers a flame of fire').*

### #097 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "We are a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-097

### #098 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-098

### #099 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-099 — *Context: From the private journals of Jim Elliot.*

### #100 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-100 — *Context: Journal entry written in 1948 while preparing for the mission field.*

### #101 — Jim Elliot [MARTYR] (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28)
> "Lord, make my way prosperous — not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-101 — *Context: From the journals of Jim Elliot, written before departing for the jungles of Ecuador.*

### #102 — Ted W. Engstrom (1916–2006 · President of World Vision & Youth for Christ)
> "A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-102

### #103 — J.L. Ewen (19th Century · Baptist Evangelist & Missionary Mobilizer)
> "As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-103

### #104 — Ion Keith-Falconer [MARTYR] (1856–1887 · Scottish Nobleman & Pioneer Missionary to Aden, Arabia (Died of Malaria at 30))
> "I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with lights."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-104

### #105 — Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921 · Scottish Theologian)
> "It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-105

### #106 — Fredrik Franson (1852–1908 · Swedish-American Evangelist & Founder of TEAM)
> "If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-106

### #107 — James O. Fraser [MARTYR] (1886–1938 · Pioneer China Inland Missionary to the Lisu People of Yunnan (Died in Kunming))
> "I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-107

### #108 — James O. Fraser [MARTYR] (1886–1938 · Pioneer China Inland Missionary to the Lisu People of Yunnan (Died in Kunming))
> "I believe it will only be known on the Last Day how much has been accomplished in missionary work by the prayers of earnest believers at home… I do earnestly covet a volume of prayer for my… work—but oh! for a volume of faith too. Will you give this?"
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-108

### #109 — R. Moffat Gautrey (1872–1931 · British Methodist Preacher)
> "The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-109

### #110 — John Geddie (1815–1872 · Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibals of Aneityum, New Hebrides)
> "When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-110

### #111 — James Gilmour [MARTYR] (1843–1891 · Lone Scottish Pioneer Missionary to Mongolia (Died in Tientsin at 47))
> "I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-111

### #112 — James Gilmour [MARTYR] (1843–1891 · Lone Scottish Pioneer Missionary to Mongolia (Died in Tientsin at 47))
> "I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-112

### #113 — Dr. Robert Hall Glover (1871–1947 · Medical Missionary to China & Missions Historian)
> "The missionary enterprise is no human conception or undertaking, no modern scheme or invention… It did not originate in the brain or heart of any man, not even William Carey, or the Apostle Paul. Its source was in the heart of God Himself. And Jesus Christ, God’s great Missionary to a lost world, was the supreme revelation of His heart and expression of His love."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-113

### #114 — Jonathan Goforth (1859–1936 · Pioneer Revivalist Missionary to China & Manchuria)
> "All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-114

### #115 — Keith Green (1953–1982 · Evangelist & Founder of Last Days Ministries (Died at 28))
> "This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-115

### #116 — Keith Green (1953–1982 · Evangelist & Founder of Last Days Ministries (Died at 28))
> "If you don’t have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-116

### #117 — Keith Green (1953–1982 · Evangelist & Founder of Last Days Ministries (Died at 28))
> "All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-117

### #118 — Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865–1940 · Medical Missionary to Labrador & Newfoundland)
> "I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-118

### #119 — Viv Grigg (b. 1949 · Urban Slum Missionary in Manila & Founder of Servants to Asia's Urban Poor)
> "It is far easier for churches to give thousands of Dollars than to find one of their members who will walk into the slums for a decade."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-119

### #120 — Jordan Grooms (Contemporary · Missions Writer (Adapting Spurgeon's Dictum))
> "If God calls you to be a missionary, don’t stoop to be a king."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-120

### #121 — Nina G. Gunter (b. 1937 · General Director of Nazarene World Mission Society)
> "If you take missions out of the Bible, you won’t have anything left but the covers."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-121

### #122 — Dr. Thomas Hale Jr. (1937–2023 · Medical Missionary Surgeon in Nepal)
> "God’s call doesn’t register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God’s will can receive a call."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-122

### #123 — Dr. Thomas Hale Jr. (1937–2023 · Medical Missionary Surgeon in Nepal)
> "The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-123

### #124 — Carl F.H. Henry (1913–2003 · Theologian & Evangelist)
> "The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-124

### #125 — Dr. Eddy Ho (Contemporary · Chinese-American Missiologist & Professor)
> "God was the first ever missionary when in Genesis 3:8 he went out in search of two sinners who had rebelled against Him in order to bring them back into fellowship with Him."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-125

### #126 — Dr. Eddy Ho (Contemporary · Chinese-American Missiologist & Professor)
> "Since God is a missionary God, God’s people are a missionary people."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-126

### #127 — J. Stuart Holden (1874–1934 · Home Director of the China Inland Mission)
> "‘Go ye’ is as much a part of Christ’s Gospel as ‘Come unto Me.’ You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-127

### #128 — Jan Hus (John Hus) [MARTYR] (c. 1372–1415 · Bohemian Reformer & Preacher Burned at the Stake at Constance)
> "In the truth of the Gospel which I have written, taught, and preached, I will die today with gladness."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-128 — *Context: Spoken on July 6, 1415, while chained by the neck to the stake at Constance with his own writings stacked around his legs for kindling; as the flames rose, he sang until the smoke took his voice.*

### #129 — Ignatius of Antioch [MARTYR] (c. 35–108 AD · Bishop of Antioch (Thrown to Wild Beasts in the Roman Colosseum))
> "I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-129 — *Context: Written while chained to ten Roman soldiers ('ten leopards') marching him from Antioch to the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome, begging the Roman Christians not to bribe the authorities to spare him the arena.*

### #130 — David Joannes (Contemporary · Missionary to Southwest China & Southeast Asia, Within Reach Global)
> "Short term missions requires long term commitment. Prayerful and financial partnership should have longevity."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-130

### #131 — David Joannes (Contemporary · Missionary to Southwest China & Southeast Asia, Within Reach Global)
> "People are still waiting at the other end of our obedience."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-131

### #132 — Clarence W. Jones (1900–1986 · Missionary to Ecuador & Co-Founder of HCJB World Radio)
> "We dare not go on awakening interest in the gospel unless somehow we can nourish and preserve the results."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-132

### #133 — Clarence W. Jones (1900–1986 · Missionary to Ecuador & Co-Founder of HCJB World Radio)
> "It’s amazing what can be accomplished if you don’t worry about who gets the credit."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-133

### #134 — Clarence W. Jones (1900–1986 · Missionary to Ecuador & Co-Founder of HCJB World Radio)
> "The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-134

### #135 — Clarence W. Jones (1900–1986 · Missionary to Ecuador & Co-Founder of HCJB World Radio)
> "Good spiritual logistics demand that we use every means available to us today to reach a lost world that desperately needs Christ."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-135

### #136 — E. Stanley Jones (1884–1973 · Methodist Missionary to India)
> "The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same—that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around him in the West."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-136

### #137 — Adoniram Judson [MARTYR] (1788–1850 · First American Foreign Missionary, Prisoner at Ava & Translator of the Burmese Bible)
> "If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-137

### #138 — Adoniram Judson [MARTYR] (1788–1850 · First American Foreign Missionary, Prisoner at Ava & Translator of the Burmese Bible)
> "The future is as bright as the promises of God."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-138 — *Context: Adoniram Judson's reply from Burma when mission board critics demanded to know what prospects existed after years of labor without a single Burmese convert. When he died at sea 38 years later, he left behind the complete Burmese Bible, 100 churches, and over 8,000 believers.*

### #139 — Adoniram Judson [MARTYR] (1788–1850 · First American Foreign Missionary, Prisoner at Ava & Translator of the Burmese Bible)
> "There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after you."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-139 — *Context: Judson buried two wives and seven of his thirteen children on the mission field, survived 21 months chained in the Death Prison at Ava with three pairs of iron fetters on his ankles, and never returned to America once in 37 years before his only brief visit.*

### #140 — Adoniram Judson [MARTYR] (1788–1850 · First American Foreign Missionary, Prisoner at Ava & Translator of the Burmese Bible)
> "A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-140 — *Context: Written to missionary candidates in America, warning them not to sign up for a few years of romance but to come prepared to lay their bones in the soil.*

### #141 — Ann Hasseltine Judson [MARTYR] (1789–1826 · First American Female Foreign Missionary to Burma (Died at 36 After Saving Adoniram at Ava))
> "Our hearts are fixed; we will go and live and die among the Burmese, even if we never see a single convert in our lifetime, if we may only lay the first stone of the foundation."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-141 — *Context: During the Anglo-Burmese War, while pregnant and nursing a baby, Ann walked two miles every day in blazing heat to the Let-Ma-Yoon Death Prison at Ava to keep Adoniram alive, hiding his handwritten Burmese New Testament manuscript inside a rock-hard pillow so the jailers would not burn it.*

### #142 — Sarah Boardman Judson [MARTYR] (1803–1845 · Pioneer Missionary to the Karen Jungles of Burma & Burmese Translator)
> "Look yonder on that sight of woe, where idols dark the mind enthrall; O Christians, shall we let them go, without one solitary call?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-142 — *Context: After burying her first husband George Boardman in the Karen jungles of Burma, Sarah carried their dying child through mountain streams to continue the mission, later married Adoniram Judson, translated Pilgrim's Progress into Burmese, and died aboard ship at St. Helena at age 41.*

### #143 — David Kim (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer)
> "The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-143

### #144 — Bishop Festo Kivengere (1919–1988 · Ugandan Evangelist Who Preached Under Idi Amin's Reign of Terror)
> "Bullets cannot kill the love of Christ. When men with guns stand before you, the cross is the only ground that does not shake."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-144 — *Context: Spoken during the reign of Idi Amin in Uganda after Bishop Janani Luwum was murdered and Kivengere was forced to flee through the mountains on foot.*

### #145 — Isobel Miller Kuhn (1901–1957 · China Inland Missionary to the Lisu Tribes of Yunnan & Northern Thailand)
> "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!"
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-145

### #146 — Isobel Miller Kuhn (1901–1957 · China Inland Missionary to the Lisu Tribes of Yunnan & Northern Thailand)
> "Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-146

### #147 — Isobel Miller Kuhn (1901–1957 · China Inland Missionary to the Lisu Tribes of Yunnan & Northern Thailand)
> "Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Then you have not read of God’s greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, ʻI would… but ye would not.ʼ"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-147

### #148 — Isobel Miller Kuhn (1901–1957 · China Inland Missionary to the Lisu Tribes of Yunnan & Northern Thailand)
> "When I get to Heaven they aren’t going to see much of me but my heels, for I’ll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-148

### #149 — Edward Lawlor (1907–1987 · Evangelist & Missions Leader)
> "If God’s love is for anybody anywhere, it’s for everybody everywhere."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-149

### #150 — Chuck Lenhart (Contemporary · Frontier Missions Mobilizer)
> "Be a small part of the big thing God is doing in the nations."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-150

### #151 — C.S. Lewis (1898–1963 · Christian Apologist & Author)
> "There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-151

### #152 — C.S. Lewis (1898–1963 · Christian Apologist & Author)
> "The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-152

### #153 — Eric Liddell [MARTYR] (1902–1945 · Olympic Champion & Missionary to China (Died in Weihsien Internment Camp at 43))
> "Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best – one who is worthy of all our devotion – Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-153

### #154 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "Sympathy is no substitute for action."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-154 — *Context: On May 1, 1873, in the swamps of Ilala (modern Zambia), David Livingstone's African companions Susi and Chuma found him dead on his knees beside his cot in the posture of prayer; they buried his heart under a mvula tree in Africa before carrying his body 1,000 miles to the coast.*

### #155 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave trade carries the trader?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-155

### #156 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-156

### #157 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "God had an only son and he was a missionary. A poor, poor example of him I am. But in this work I now live. And in this work, I wish to die."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-157

### #158 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "If we have not enough in our religion… to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-158

### #159 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-159

### #160 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "This generation can only reach this generation."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-160

### #161 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "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."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-161

### #162 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "Anywhere provided it be forward."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-162

### #163 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-163

### #164 — David Livingstone [MARTYR] (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala))
> "I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father’s throne on high to give Himself for us."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-164

### #165 — Cody Lorance (Contemporary · Cross-Cultural Missions Pastor)
> "No factor of human migration is more significant than that of the Holy Spirit who has decreed all such movement for the sake of mission."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-165

### #166 — Ron Luce (b. 1961 · Youth Evangelist & Missions Mobilizer)
> "Live God LOUD!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-166

### #167 — Ron Luce (b. 1961 · Youth Evangelist & Missions Mobilizer)
> "The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-167

### #168 — Samuel Marsden (1765–1838 · Pioneer Missionary to Australia & New Zealand (Apostle to the Maori))
> "It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-168

### #169 — Frederick Edward Marsh (1858–1931 · English Bible Teacher & Evangelist)
> "The will of God – nothing less, nothing more, nothing else."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-169

### #170 — Henry Martyn [MARTYR] (1781–1812 · Missionary & Bible Translator to India and Persia (Died in Tokat at 31))
> "The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-170

### #171 — Henry Martyn [MARTYR] (1781–1812 · Missionary & Bible Translator to India and Persia (Died in Tokat at 31))
> "I am immortal until God’s work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-171

### #172 — Henry Martyn [MARTYR] (1781–1812 · Missionary & Bible Translator to India and Persia (Died in Tokat at 31))
> "Now let me burn out for God."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-172 — *Context: Written in his journal on May 16, 1806, upon seeing the pagodas of Calcutta as his ship entered the Hooghly River. Within six years he translated the New Testament into Hindustani (Urdu), Persian, and Arabic before dying alone of plague or fever in Tokat, Armenia, at age 31.*

### #173 — George Miley (Contemporary · Co-Founder of Operation Mobilization Ships & Church Planter)
> "I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God’s global mission. Now I have another idea. Let’s take God’s global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-173

### #174 — Robert Moffat (1795–1883 · 50-Year Scottish Pioneer Missionary to South Africa & Translator of the Setswana Bible)
> "In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been—Villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-174

### #175 — Robert Moffat (1795–1883 · 50-Year Scottish Pioneer Missionary to South Africa & Translator of the Setswana Bible)
> "Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-175

### #176 — Charlotte 'Lottie' Moon [MARTYR] (1840–1912 · 39-Year Missionary to Tengchow, China (Starved During Famine Relief))
> "I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-176

### #177 — Charlotte 'Lottie' Moon [MARTYR] (1840–1912 · 39-Year Missionary to Tengchow, China (Starved During Famine Relief))
> "Why should we not do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of Him who, though He was rich, for our sake became poor?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-177 — *Context: Written from Tengchow, China. During the 1912 war and famine in Shandong, Lottie Moon secretly gave away all of her own food and savings to starving Chinese neighbors until her weight dropped to 50 pounds; she died aboard a ship in Kobe harbor on Christmas Eve 1912.*

### #178 — Charlotte 'Lottie' Moon [MARTYR] (1840–1912 · 39-Year Missionary to Tengchow, China (Starved During Famine Relief))
> "What is needed is twenty men and women who will come out here and live and die with the people."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-178 — *Context: From her letters pleading for reinforcements in northern China.*

### #179 — Johann Leonhard Dober & David Nitschmann (1732 · First Moravian Missionaries to the Enslaved Peoples of St. Thomas)
> "May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering!"
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-179 — *Context: The battle cry raised on the dock at Copenhagen in August 1732 by the first two Moravian missionaries sailing to the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, prepared to sell themselves into plantation slavery if no other way existed to preach Christ to the enslaved.*

### #180 — Patrick Morley (b. 1949 · Founder of Man in the Mirror Ministries)
> "If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-180

### #181 — J.G. Morrison (1871–1939 · Depression-Era Foreign Missions Leader)
> "Can’t you do just a little bit more?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-181

### #182 — Robert Morrison [MARTYR] (1782–1834 · First Protestant Missionary to China & Translator of the Chinese Bible (Died in Canton))
> "The man… looking at him with a smile that only half concealed his contempt, inquired, ‘Now Mr. Morrison, do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the Chinese Empire?’ ‘No sir,’ said Morrison, ‘but I expect that God will.'"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-182

### #183 — John R. Mott (1865–1955 · Leader of the Student Volunteer Movement)
> "It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-183

### #184 — George Müller (1805–1898 · Founder of the Ashley Down Orphanages & 17-Year World Missionary Evangelist)
> "Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-184 — *Context: George Müller cared for 10,024 orphans in Bristol without ever asking a human being for a penny, and at age 70 embarked on a 17-year, 200,000-mile missionary tour across 42 nations.*

### #185 — George Müller (1805–1898 · Founder of the Ashley Down Orphanages & 17-Year World Missionary Evangelist)
> "Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-185 — *Context: Spoken near the end of his life after recording over 50,000 specific answers to prayer in his journals.*

### #186 — Andrew Murray (1828–1917 · South African Pastor, Revivalist & Missions Advocate)
> "Missions are the chief end of the Church… the chief end of the ministry ought to be to equip the Church for this. Each congregation is meant to be a training class."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-186

### #187 — Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng) [MARTYR] (1903–1972 · Chinese Church Leader Who Died in an Anhui Labor Camp After 20 Years in Prison)
> "I maintain my joy."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-187 — *Context: Written in large, trembling characters on a scrap of paper found under his pillow on May 30, 1972, the day he died in White Reed Lake Labor Farm in Anhui Province after twenty years of Communist imprisonment.*

### #188 — Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng) [MARTYR] (1903–1972 · Chinese Church Leader Who Died in an Anhui Labor Camp After 20 Years in Prison)
> "If we have not staked everything on Christ, we have not yet learned what it is to follow Him."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-188 — *Context: Spoken in Shanghai before he chose to return into mainland China in 1950 knowing arrest was certain rather than abandon his flock.*

### #189 — Michael Oh (b. 1971 · Missionary to Nagoya, Japan & Global Leader of Lausanne)
> "So many Christians seek to live the pain-free Christian life. Such a life has no impact."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-189

### #190 — Gordon C. Olson (1907–1989 · Missions Bible Teacher)
> "If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-190

### #191 — T.L. Osborn (1923–2013 · Mass-Crusade Missionary Evangelist to Over 70 Nations)
> "One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-191

### #192 — George Otis Jr. (Contemporary · Founder of The Sentinel Group & Missions Researcher)
> "Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn’t."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-192

### #193 — Harlan Page (1791–1834 · New England Carpenter, Tract Distributor & Personal Soul-Winner)
> "Let me die in the harness, winning one more soul before the sun goes down."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-193 — *Context: A humble carpenter in Coventry, Connecticut, who personally covenanted never to speak to a man for five minutes without pressing the claims of eternity upon his soul.*

### #194 — Luis Palau (1934–2021 · Argentine-Born International Evangelist)
> "A nation will not be moved by timid methods."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-194

### #195 — John G. Paton (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa))
> "At the moment when I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, but now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems of the Redeemer’s love, I had a foretaste of the joy of Glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus Himself."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-195

### #196 — John G. Paton (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa))
> "… and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived from every quarter of the island, inquiring anxiously about my health, and wondering if I was not feeling sick."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-196

### #197 — John G. Paton (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa))
> "If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-197 — *Context: John G. Paton's famous reply to an elderly church elder in Scotland who cried out, 'The Cannibals! You will be eaten by Cannibals!' when Paton announced he was sailing for the New Hebrides in 1858.*

### #198 — John G. Paton (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa))
> "Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-198

### #199 — John G. Paton (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa))
> "With my trembling hand I dug the grave for my young wife and my little boy on that cannibal island; yet in that dark hour Jesus stood by me, and I would not have exchanged that lonely grave on Tanna for a king's palace."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-199 — *Context: Written from the island of Tanna (New Hebrides) after Paton buried his wife Mary and their newborn son with his own hands and slept on the mound of coral earth for nights to guard their bodies.*

### #200 — John G. Paton (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa))
> "We can only once live and die on earth; let us live and die to the utmost for the Lord who bought us with His blood."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-200 — *Context: From John G. Paton's Autobiography, after seeing the entire island of Aniwa turn from cannibalism to Christ.*

### #201 — Patrick of Ireland (c. 385–461 AD · Former Captive Slave Who Returned as Pioneer Missionary to Pagan Ireland)
> "Daily I expect murder, fraud, or captivity, or whatever it may be; but I fear none of these things because of the promises of heaven. I have cast myself into the hands of God Almighty, who reigns everywhere."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-201 — *Context: From Patrick's Confessio — written after he escaped six years of slavery as a teenage herdsman in Ireland, only to return voluntarily to preach Christ to the very tribes that had enslaved him.*

### #202 — John Coleridge Patteson [MARTYR] (1827–1871 · Missionary Bishop to Melanesia (Martyred on Nukapu Island with 5 Wounds))
> "We visited sixty-six islands and landed eighty-one times, wading, swimming (to shore). Most of the people were friendly and delightful; only two arrows shot at us, and only one went near—So much for savages!"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-202 — *Context: Clubbed to death on the reef of Nukapu in the South Pacific on September 20, 1871, in retaliation for Western 'blackbirding' slave raiders who had kidnapped five islanders. His body was floated back in a canoe with five knotted palm fronds over five wounds.*

### #203 — Paul the Apostle [MARTYR] (1st Century AD · Apostle to the Gentiles (Beheaded in Rome under Nero))
> "I make it my ambition to preach Christ where he has not been named."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-203

### #204 — J.D. Payne (Contemporary · Missiologist & Church Planting Strategist)
> "If what we model before others is only reproducible by people like us, then our disciple making & planting methods are too complex."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-204

### #205 — Major William Evander Penn (1832–1895 · Texas Baptist Evangelist & Hymn Writer)
> "O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-205

### #206 — George W. Peters (1907–1988 · Mennonite Brethren Missionary & Author of A Biblical Theology of Missions)
> "God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-206

### #207 — George W. Peters (1907–1988 · Mennonite Brethren Missionary & Author of A Biblical Theology of Missions)
> "The primacy of missions is written in large letters across the pages of the whole Bible. All the apostles gave themselves to missions, and only the sword could cut short their path to the uttermost part of the earth."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-207

### #208 — Bob Pierce (1914–1978 · War Correspondent & Founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse)
> "Let my heart be broken with the things that break God’s heart"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-208

### #209 — Arthur T. Pierson (1837–1911 · Editor of The Missionary Review of the World & Mentor to Mott, Speer, and Zwemer)
> "If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self–surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-209

### #210 — Arthur T. Pierson (1837–1911 · Editor of The Missionary Review of the World & Mentor to Mott, Speer, and Zwemer)
> "Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-210

### #211 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-211

### #212 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-212

### #213 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-213

### #214 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "Go, send, or disobey."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-214

### #215 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-215

### #216 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-216

### #217 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie–talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief. It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den…Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for: Prayer is for the accomplishment of a wartime mission."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-217

### #218 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-218

### #219 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-219

### #220 — John Piper (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad)
> "A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-220

### #221 — David Platt (b. 1978 · Pastor, Former IMB President & Author of Radical)
> "Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-221

### #222 — David Platt (b. 1978 · Pastor, Former IMB President & Author of Radical)
> "No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that’s enough. God’s Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches… Jungles… Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?"
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-222

### #223 — David Platt (b. 1978 · Pastor, Former IMB President & Author of Radical)
> "Radical obedience to Christ is not easy… It’s not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-223

### #224 — Polycarp of Smyrna [MARTYR] (69–155 AD · Disciple of the Apostle John & Bishop of Smyrna (Burned & Speared in the Roman Arena))
> "Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Saviour?"
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-224 — *Context: Spoken in 155 AD in the packed Roman stadium at Smyrna when the proconsul Statius Quadratus promised to release the aged bishop if he would swear by the genius of Caesar and curse Christ.*

### #225 — Jackie Pullinger (b. 1944 · Missionary to the Walled City of Kowloon, Hong Kong)
> "The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-225

### #226 — Jerry Rankin (b. 1942 · Missionary to Indonesia & President of the International Mission Board)
> "Satan is delighted for us to be satisfied with having given of our time, contributed significant expense and helping a lot of people without introducing them to the One who can give eternal hope."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-226

### #227 — Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994 · English Revivalist Preacher & Author of Why Revival Tarries)
> "Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!"
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-227

### #228 — Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994 · English Revivalist Preacher & Author of Why Revival Tarries)
> "Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-228

### #229 — Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994 · English Revivalist Preacher & Author of Why Revival Tarries)
> "We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We’ve been ‘living in Laodicea,’ lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-229

### #230 — Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994 · English Revivalist Preacher & Author of Why Revival Tarries)
> "Jehovah Witnesses don’t believe in hell and neither do most Christians."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-230

### #231 — Eleanor Roat (20th Century · Missions Mobilizer to Africa)
> "What’s your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?"
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-231

### #232 — Nate Saint [MARTYR] (1923–1956 · Missionary Bush Pilot Martyred by the Waodani (Auca) on Palm Beach, Ecuador)
> "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."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-232

### #233 — Nate Saint [MARTYR] (1923–1956 · Missionary Bush Pilot Martyred by the Waodani (Auca) on Palm Beach, Ecuador)
> "If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-233

### #234 — Nate Saint [MARTYR] (1923–1956 · Missionary Bush Pilot Martyred by the Waodani (Auca) on Palm Beach, Ecuador)
> "As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-234

### #235 — Robert C. Savage (1914–1987 · Missionary to Colombia & Ecuador with HCJB and Latin America Mission)
> "The command has been to ‘go,’ but we have stayed – in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth … but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-235

### #236 — Betty Scott Stam [MARTYR] (1906–1934 · China Inland Missionary Beheaded with Her Husband John Stam in Jingde, China at 28)
> "Lord, I give up All my own plans and purposes, All my own desires and hopes And accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, Utterly to Thee To be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt, Send me where Thou wilt, Work out Thy whole will in my life At any cost, Now and forever."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-236

### #237 — Robert C. Shannon (20th Century · Preacher & Missions Writer)
> "Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is – where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-237

### #238 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "One-third of the planet’s population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-238

### #239 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "Today, 112 years later, 94% of the people in the world recognize the Coca-Cola logo and product. In 112 years, we can reach the world for profit’s sake, but we cannot do it for the glory of God in 2,000 years."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-239

### #240 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-240

### #241 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-241

### #242 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-242

### #243 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-243

### #244 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "When you love the Lord, you long to glorify Him and see the nations fall at His feet in worship. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you share the gospel with him and seek to meet his needs in every way you can, which includes seeing him fall at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving for salvation."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-244

### #245 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-245

### #246 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-246

### #247 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "God will not lead you where He will not provide for you."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-247

### #248 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the Kingdom as nothing else could and the blood of the saints has ever been the seed and fuel of gospel advance."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-248

### #249 — M. David Sills (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call)
> "Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-249

### #250 — Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919 · Founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA))
> "The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-250

### #251 — Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919 · Founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA))
> "Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-251

### #252 — Sadhu Sundar Singh [MARTYR] (1889–c. 1929 · 'The Apostle of the Bleeding Feet' — Barefoot Indian Missionary Who Vanished in Tibet)
> "How shall I walk across the snow of Tibet with shoes when my Master walked up Calvary with bleeding feet? Look at His feet — pierced for me. Should I not walk barefoot for Him?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-252 — *Context: Converted after burning the Bible at age 16 in Punjab, Sundar Singh donned the saffron robe of a wandering sadhu and crossed the freezing Himalayan passes barefoot into closed Tibet year after year, where he was thrown into a dry well filled with rotting corpses and left to die.*

### #253 — Sadhu Sundar Singh [MARTYR] (1889–c. 1929 · 'The Apostle of the Bleeding Feet' — Barefoot Indian Missionary Who Vanished in Tibet)
> "It is easy to die for Christ. It is hard to live for Him. Dying takes only an hour or two, but to live for Christ means to die daily."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-253 — *Context: In April 1929, despite failing health, he walked one final time into the Himalayas toward Tibet and was never seen again.*

### #254 — David Sitton (Contemporary · Missionary to Papua New Guinea & Founder of To Every Tribe)
> "We do not truly understand the gospel if we spend all of our time preaching it to Christians. The gospel is a missionary gospel. It is a communication of Good News to people and in places where the name of Christ is unknown."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-254

### #255 — David Sitton (Contemporary · Missionary to Papua New Guinea & Founder of To Every Tribe)
> "I am on a crusade right now to recruit martyr missionaries for the least reached people groups of the world."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Fiji, New Hebrides & South Pacific | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-255

### #256 — Mary Slessor [MARTYR] (1848–1915 · Scottish Mill Girl & 39-Year Pioneer Missionary to the Okoyong of Calabar, Nigeria)
> "Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service — praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, and the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-256 — *Context: From the field notes of Mary Slessor, who worked 12-hour shifts in a Dundee jute mill before sailing to Calabar, Nigeria, where she lived barefoot in mud huts for 39 years among headhunting tribes.*

### #257 — Mary Slessor [MARTYR] (1848–1915 · Scottish Mill Girl & 39-Year Pioneer Missionary to the Okoyong of Calabar, Nigeria)
> "Lord, the task is impossible for me, but not for Thee. Lead the way and I follow."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-257 — *Context: Written in the margin of her Bible in the jungles of Calabar, where she single-handedly broke the tribal custom of murdering twin infants and settled blood feuds between armed war parties.*

### #258 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-258

### #259 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-259

### #260 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-260

### #261 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "The mission of the church is missions"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-261

### #262 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "The church that does not evangelize will fossilize."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-262

### #263 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-263

### #264 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-264

### #265 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-265

### #266 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "You can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-266

### #267 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "You must go or send a substitute."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-267

### #268 — Oswald J. Smith (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto)
> "If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-268

### #269 — David Smithers (Contemporary · Revival Historian & Founder of Awake & Go Ministries)
> "God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-269

### #270 — Robert E. Speer (1867–1947 · Presbyterian Foreign Missions Leader for 46 Years)
> "The question for us to answer is not, Am I called to the foreign field? But, Can I show sufficient cause for not going?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-270

### #271 — Robert E. Speer (1867–1947 · Presbyterian Foreign Missions Leader for 46 Years)
> "A man not spiritually fitted ought not to go, but neither is he fit to stay."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-271

### #272 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892 · 'The Prince of Preachers', Metropolitan Tabernacle, London)
> "If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-272

### #273 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892 · 'The Prince of Preachers', Metropolitan Tabernacle, London)
> "Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-273

### #274 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892 · 'The Prince of Preachers', Metropolitan Tabernacle, London)
> "Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we—who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not—can be saved."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-274

### #275 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892 · 'The Prince of Preachers', Metropolitan Tabernacle, London)
> "Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-275

### #276 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892 · 'The Prince of Preachers', Metropolitan Tabernacle, London)
> "The motive is this, ‘Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnified!’ This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God’s glory, it is God’s glory to answer thy prayers."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Printed Word & Scripture, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-276

### #277 — Mike Stachura (Contemporary · Missions Pastor & Mobilizer)
> "The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-277

### #278 — John Cornelius Stam [MARTYR] (1907–1934 · China Inland Missionary Beheaded with His Wife Betty in Jingde, China at 27)
> "Whether the Lord shall be magnified by my life, or by my death — may Christ be magnified in my body."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-278 — *Context: Written in his final letter to the China Inland Mission on December 6, 1934, as Red Army troops seized Jingde. Forty-eight hours later, John and his 28-year-old wife Betty were marched down the street of Miaosheo and beheaded on Eagle Hill.*

### #279 — James S. Stewart (1896–1990 · Scottish Preacher & Chaplain)
> "The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man’s personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-279

### #280 — John R.W. Stott (1921–2011 · Architect of the 1974 Lausanne Covenant)
> "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-280

### #281 — John R.W. Stott (1921–2011 · Architect of the 1974 Lausanne Covenant)
> "‘The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless ‘all the families of the earth,’ he has promised to do so ‘through Abraham’s seed’ (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham’s seed by faith, and the earth’s families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God’s plain purpose."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-281

### #282 — John R.W. Stott (1921–2011 · Architect of the 1974 Lausanne Covenant)
> "His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-282

### #283 — John R.W. Stott (1921–2011 · Architect of the 1974 Lausanne Covenant)
> "Do we claim to believe in God? He’s a missionary God. You tell me you’re committed to Christ. He’s a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He’s a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It’s a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It’s a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-283

### #284 — R. Kenneth Strachan (1910–1965 · Missionary to Costa Rica & Director of the Latin America Mission)
> "I like men whose vision carries them far beyond their own horizons."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-284

### #285 — Wendi Stranz (Contemporary · Missions Advocate)
> "Will you shed your tears for the souls of the nations?"
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-285

### #286 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-286

### #287 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-287 — *Context: The lifelong motto of C.T. Studd — England's greatest cricket star who gave away his entire £29,000 fortune at age 25 to spend 10 years in inland China, 6 years in southern India, and his final 18 years in the heart of the Belgian Congo.*

### #288 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-288

### #289 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-289

### #290 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-290

### #291 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-291

### #292 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-292

### #293 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "Only one life, ’twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-293 — *Context: Written by C.T. Studd after giving away his entire £29,000 inheritance (millions in modern currency) at age 25 to Moody, George Müller, and the China Inland Mission so he could go to the field with nothing in reserve.*

### #294 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "How could I spend the best years of my life in working for myself and the honors and pleasures of this world, while thousands of souls are perishing every day without having heard of the Lord Jesus Christ?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-294 — *Context: Written upon leaving Cambridge University in 1885 as one of the 'Cambridge Seven' bound for China.*

### #295 — Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd [MARTYR] (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo))
> "Nail the colors to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and therefore that is what we must do, and do it now."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Interior & Coastal Africa | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-295 — *Context: Written from the heart of the Belgian Congo, where Studd labored for eighteen years despite severe asthma, malaria, and gallbladder attacks.*

### #296 — Dr. John Sung (Song Shangjie) [MARTYR] (1901–1944 · 'The John Wesley of China' — Revivalist Across China & Southeast Asia (Died at 42))
> "Take my academic medals and cast them into the ocean. I would rather die preaching the cross of Christ to my countrymen than live in the applause of men."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-296 — *Context: In 1927, sailing back to China after earning a PhD in chemistry in the United States, John Sung threw his academic gold keys and honors overboard into the Pacific Ocean, keeping only his diploma for his father, and preached three times a day through chronic tuberculosis until his death at 42.*

### #297 — Leonard Sweet (b. 1947 · Theologian & Church Historian)
> "God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission… Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-297

### #298 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "As child, at age 5: “When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.” As a young man: “I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for China.” Late in life, as a veteran missionary: “If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-298 — *Context: The three stages of J. Hudson Taylor's lifelong burden for inland China — from a five-year-old boy in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to a veteran pioneer who buried four of his children and his first wife Maria on Chinese soil.*

### #299 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-299

### #300 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour’s plain command to go?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-300

### #301 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "The great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-301

### #302 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "‘Must you go to China? How much nicer it would be to stay here and serve the Lord at home!’ She made it plain at last that she would not go to China."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-302 — *Context: Spoken to J. Hudson Taylor in 1855 by his fiancée in England as she broke off their engagement because he refused to abandon his call to inland China.*

### #303 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-303

### #304 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "Unless there is the element of extreme risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-304

### #305 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-305

### #306 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-306

### #307 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things – things greater even than we can conceive."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-307

### #308 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "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."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-308

### #309 — J. Hudson Taylor [MARTYR] (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha))
> "Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-309 — *Context: One of J. Hudson Taylor's signature calls to total consecration across Britain, America, and China.*

### #310 — Mendell Taylor (1912–1999 · Church Historian & Missions Educator)
> "The Church must send or the church will end."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-310

### #311 — Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983 · Dutch Watchmaker, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Survivor & World Evangelist)
> "We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-311

### #312 — Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983 · Dutch Watchmaker, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Survivor & World Evangelist)
> "Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-312

### #313 — Mother Teresa (1910–1997 · Missionary to the Dying Destitute of Calcutta, India)
> "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-313

### #314 — Isabella Thoburn [MARTYR] (1840–1901 · Pioneer Educator & Missionary to Lucknow, India (Died of Cholera in Lucknow))
> "The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-314

### #315 — Robert Jermain Thomas [MARTYR] (1839–1866 · First Protestant Martyr of Korea (Beheaded on the Taedong River Handing Out Chinese Bibles))
> "Brother, receive the Word of God!"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-315 — *Context: Spoken on September 5, 1866, on the banks of the Taedong River at Pyongyang, as the 27-year-old Welsh missionary knelt in the sand and handed his last red-bound Chinese Bible to his executioner Pak Chun-gwon seconds before the sword fell. Pak later papered the walls of his house with the pages of that Bible, read them, and converted to Christ.*

### #316 — William Cameron Townsend (1896–1982 · Kaqchikel Bible Translator in Guatemala & Founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators)
> "The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-316 — *Context: Spoken by William Cameron Townsend after a Kaqchikel Indian in Guatemala asked him in 1917: 'If your God is so smart, why hasn't He learned our language?'*

### #317 — A.W. Tozer (1897–1963 · Prophetic Preacher & Author of The Pursuit of God)
> "Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-317

### #318 — A.W. Tozer (1897–1963 · Prophetic Preacher & Author of The Pursuit of God)
> "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-318 — *Context: From The Root of the Righteous.*

### #319 — A.W. Tozer (1897–1963 · Prophetic Preacher & Author of The Pursuit of God)
> "A scared world needs a fearless church."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-319 — *Context: From the sermons of A.W. Tozer.*

### #320 — William Tyndale [MARTYR] (1494–1536 · Translator of the English Bible (Strangled & Burned at the Stake at Vilvoorde))
> "If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-320 — *Context: Spoken in 1522 to a clergyman who declared they were better without God's law than the Pope's; fourteen years later Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake in Vilvoorde after smuggling thousands of English New Testaments into England in bales of cloth.*

### #321 — William Tyndale [MARTYR] (1494–1536 · Translator of the English Bible (Strangled & Burned at the Stake at Vilvoorde))
> "Lord, open the King of England's eyes."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-321 — *Context: William Tyndale's final cry at the stake on October 6, 1536, moments before the executioner strangled him and burned his body. Within three years, King Henry VIII ordered the Great Bible — largely Tyndale's own translation — placed in every parish church in England.*

### #322 — George Verwer (1938–2023 · Founder of Operation Mobilization (OM))
> "The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists… Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-322

### #323 — George Verwer (1938–2023 · Founder of Operation Mobilization (OM))
> "We who have Christ’s eternal life need to throw away our own lives."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-323

### #324 — Kurt von Schleicher (20th Century · Attributed in Missions Literature)
> "Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-324

### #325 — Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760 · Leader of the Herrnhut Moravian Brethren & the 100-Year Prayer Watch)
> "I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-325

### #326 — Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760 · Leader of the Herrnhut Moravian Brethren & the 100-Year Prayer Watch)
> "I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-326

### #327 — Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760 · Leader of the Herrnhut Moravian Brethren & the 100-Year Prayer Watch)
> "Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-327 — *Context: Zinzendorf's charge to the Moravian missionaries sent out from Herrnhut, Saxony — a community of 300 refugees who ignited a 24-hour continuous prayer watch that lasted over 100 years without interruption and sent out more missionaries in 20 years than the entire Protestant church had in the previous two centuries.*

### #328 — Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760 · Leader of the Herrnhut Moravian Brethren & the 100-Year Prayer Watch)
> "Missions, after all, is simply this: every heart with Christ is a missionary, and every heart without Christ is a mission field."
- **Themes:** Field Endurance & Suffering, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-328 — *Context: Spoken after seeing Domenico Fetti's painting of the thorn-crowned Christ in Düsseldorf with the Latin inscription: 'This have I done for thee; what hast thou done for Me?'*

### #329 — Wang Mingdao (1900–1991 · Dean of the Chinese Underground House Church (23 Years in Communist Prisons))
> "We are because of faith; they are because of unbelief. There can be no talk of uniting faith with unbelief."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-329 — *Context: Written in Beijing in 1955 when ordered to merge his independent Christian Tabernacle into the state-controlled Three-Self apparatus; he spent the next 23 years in Communist prisons.*

### #330 — Karen Denise Watson [MARTYR] (1965–2004 · Missionary Martyred in Mosul, Iraq (From Her Sealed Letter Opened After Death))
> "The missionary heart: Care more than some think is wise. Risk more than some think is safe. Dream more than some think is practical. Expect more than some think is possible. I was called not to comfort or success but to obedience… There is no joy outside of knowing Jesus and serving him."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-330 — *Context: Found inside a sealed two-page handwritten letter Karen Watson left with her pastor in Bakersfield, California, marked 'To be opened only in the event of my death.' It was opened after she was gunned down in Mosul, Iraq, on March 15, 2004.*

### #331 — Karen Denise Watson [MARTYR] (1965–2004 · Missionary Martyred in Mosul, Iraq (From Her Sealed Letter Opened After Death))
> "When God calls there are no regrets. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-331 — *Context: The opening lines of the sealed letter Karen Watson left with her pastor in Bakersfield, California, before departing for Iraq, opened after she was killed in Mosul on March 15, 2004.*

### #332 — John Wesley (1703–1791 · Missionary to Georgia & Open-Air Revivalist (250,000 Miles on Horseback))
> "Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-332

### #333 — John Wesley (1703–1791 · Missionary to Georgia & Open-Air Revivalist (250,000 Miles on Horseback))
> "You have one business on earth: to save souls."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-333

### #334 — John Wesley (1703–1791 · Missionary to Georgia & Open-Air Revivalist (250,000 Miles on Horseback))
> "Untold millions are still untold."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-334

### #335 — John Wesley (1703–1791 · Missionary to Georgia & Open-Air Revivalist (250,000 Miles on Horseback))
> "Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?"
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-335

### #336 — George Whitefield [MARTYR] (1714–1770 · Transatlantic Revivalist Who Crossed the Atlantic 13 Times & Preached 18,000 Sermons)
> "I would rather wear out than rust out."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-336 — *Context: His answer to friends who begged him to rest as his lungs failed; the next afternoon he stood on a barrel in a field in Exeter, New Hampshire, preached for two hours in the open air, and died before dawn the following morning at age 55.*

### #337 — George Whitefield [MARTYR] (1714–1770 · Transatlantic Revivalist Who Crossed the Atlantic 13 Times & Preached 18,000 Sermons)
> "Other men may preach the Gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better Gospel."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** American Frontier & Revivalists | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-337 — *Context: Whitefield crossed the Atlantic Ocean thirteen times on wooden sailing ships and preached an estimated 18,000 times to coal miners, farmers, and frontiersmen.*

### #338 — William Wilberforce (1759–1833 · Christian Abolitionist & Champion of British Missions to India)
> "If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-338

### #339 — William Wilberforce (1759–1833 · Christian Abolitionist & Champion of British Missions to India)
> "You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-339

### #340 — George Wilson (20th Century · Evangelist & Missions Mobilizer)
> "Don’t wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Global Watchmen & Mobilizers | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-340

### #341 — Dr. Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009 · Missionary to Guatemala & Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission)
> "The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible."
- **Themes:** The Printed Word & Scripture, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-341

### #342 — Dr. Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009 · Missionary to Guatemala & Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission)
> "God cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-342

### #343 — Dr. Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009 · Missionary to Guatemala & Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission)
> "Never concede to doing something so small that it could be accomplished entirely in your lifetime. Be a part of something that began before you were born, and will continue onward toward the fulfillment of all that God has purposed to accomplish."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Ecuador, Amazon & Latin America | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-343

### #344 — Christopher J.H. Wright (b. 1947 · Missionary Educator in India & Author of The Mission of God)
> "It’s not that God has a mission for his Church in the world, but that God has a Church for his mission in the world."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-344

### #345 — Christopher J.H. Wright (b. 1947 · Missionary Educator in India & Author of The Mission of God)
> "Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-345

### #346 — Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001 · Romanian Pastor Tortured 14 Years in Communist Prisons & Founder of The Voice of the Martyrs)
> "What can we do to win these men to Christ?"
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-346

### #347 — Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001 · Romanian Pastor Tortured 14 Years in Communist Prisons & Founder of The Voice of the Martyrs)
> "A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-347 — *Context: Richard Wurmbrand spent 14 years in Communist prisons in Romania — including three years in underground solitary confinement thirty feet beneath the earth without seeing sun, moon, or sky — and had eighteen deep scars burned and carved into his body.*

### #348 — Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001 · Romanian Pastor Tortured 14 Years in Communist Prisons & Founder of The Voice of the Martyrs)
> "In solitary confinement, we could not preach to men anymore, so we preached to the angels and principalities, showing them by our chains that Christ is worth more than freedom or life."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-348 — *Context: From Tortured for Christ (1967), written after the underground church ransomed him from Romania for $10,000 and he stripped to the waist before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to show the scars on his torso.*

### #349 — John Wycliffe (c. 1328–1384 · 'The Morning Star of the Reformation' & Pioneer of the English Bible)
> "Christ and His apostles taught the people in that tongue that was best known to them. Why should not men do so now?"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture | **Region:** Reformation & Underground Europe | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-349 — *Context: Written in defense of translating the Latin Vulgate into common English and sending barefoot Lollard preachers across England with hand-copied Scriptures. Forty-four years after his death, the Council of Constance exhumed his bones, burned them, and cast the ashes into the River Swift.*

### #350 — Francis Xavier [MARTYR] (1506–1552 · Pioneer Missionary to India, Malacca, and Japan (Died on Shangchuan Island))
> "I want to be where there are out and out pagans."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-350

### #351 — Francis Xavier [MARTYR] (1506–1552 · Pioneer Missionary to India, Malacca, and Japan (Died on Shangchuan Island))
> "Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-351

### #352 — Francis Xavier [MARTYR] (1506–1552 · Pioneer Missionary to India, Malacca, and Japan (Died on Shangchuan Island))
> "Many, very many, here in India fail to become Christians solely for the lack of someone to make them Christians. Often the thought comes to me to go round all the universities of Europe, crying aloud like a madman to those whose learning is greater than their charity: 'Ah, what a multitude of souls is through your fault shut out of heaven and falling into hell!'"
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** China, Korea & East Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-352 — *Context: Written from Cochin, India, in January 1544 — the authentic letter of Francis Xavier that ignited European foreign missions (correcting the common internet misattribution of David Brainerd's 1742 diary entry to Xavier).*

### #353 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-353

### #354 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "Walk away from your own preoccupations… and see the perishing multitudes."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-354

### #355 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-355

### #356 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-356

### #357 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "Rediscover the real meaning of the Great Commission. Beginning in our own prayer and devotional lives, we must begin to feel the compassion of the Lord for a lost and dying world. As we have already seen, the Great Commission is not something that was given to a tiny group of specially trained and educated envoys. It was given to all Christians—to the whole Church. It is something that we are all to be engaged in naturally every day."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Unreached & Dark Places | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-357

### #358 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached."
- **Themes:** The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-358

### #359 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-359

### #360 — K.P. Yohannan (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions)
> "In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk."
- **Themes:** War on Comfort & Lukewarm Faith, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** India, Burma & South Asia | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-360

### #361 — Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867–1952 · 'The Apostle to Islam' — Pioneer Missionary to Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt)
> "The great Pioneer Missionaries all had ‘inverted homesickness’ this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires"
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-361

### #362 — Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867–1952 · 'The Apostle to Islam' — Pioneer Missionary to Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt)
> "The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price, The Printed Word & Scripture, The Unreached & Dark Places, Field Endurance & Suffering | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-362 — *Context: Written by Samuel Zwemer ('The Apostle to Islam'), who pioneered Christian literature distribution across Arabia, Persia, and Egypt because printed truth could cross thresholds where no foreign preacher was permitted to stand.*

### #363 — Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867–1952 · 'The Apostle to Islam' — Pioneer Missionary to Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt)
> "The history of missions is the history of answered prayer."
- **Themes:** Prayer as Frontline Warfare, The Call & Radical Obedience, Short Blades (18 Words or Under) | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-363

### #364 — Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867–1952 · 'The Apostle to Islam' — Pioneer Missionary to Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt)
> "I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians."
- **Themes:** The Call & Radical Obedience | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-364

### #365 — Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867–1952 · 'The Apostle to Islam' — Pioneer Missionary to Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt)
> "The secret of the survival of the cross is that the cross was made to die on, not to wear."
- **Themes:** Martyrdom & The Blood Price | **Region:** Middle East, Arabia & Early Church | **Permalink:** https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#mq-365 — *Context: Samuel Zwemer buried his two young daughters, Ruth (age 4) and Katharina (age 7), within eight days of each other in the desert heat of Bahrain in July 1904, and engraved on their stone: 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.'*


## Complete 161 Witness Biographical Dossiers (A–Z)

- **Roland Allen** (1868–1947 · Missionary to North China & Missiologist) — 2 testimonies (#001, #002) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-allen-roland)
- **Field Witnesses (Unnamed)** (Various Eras · Uncredited Missionaries & Field Workers) — 10 testimonies (#003, #004, #005, #006, #007, #008, #009, #010, #011, #012) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-anonymous)
- **Gladys Aylward** (1902–1970 · Missionary to Shanxi, China ('The Small Woman')) — 2 testimonies (#013, #014) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-aylward-gladys)
- **T.J. Bach** (1881–1963 · Pioneer Missionary to Venezuela & TEAM Director) — 2 testimonies (#015, #016) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-bach-t-j)
- **David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson** (2001 · Researchers, World Christian Trends) — 5 testimonies (#017, #018, #019, #020, #021) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-barrett-and-johnson)
- **Amanda Berry Smith** (1837–1915 · Former Slave & Missionary to India and Liberia) — 1 testimonies (#022) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-berry-smith-amanda)
- **Mike Bickle** (Contemporary · Writer on Prayer & Endurance) — 1 testimonies (#023) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-bickle-mike)
- **Rowland V. Bingham** (1872–1942 · Founder of Sudan Interior Mission (SIM)) — 1 testimonies (#024) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-bingham-rowland)
- **William Booth** (1829–1912 · Founder of The Salvation Army, East London) — 4 testimonies (#025, #026, #027, #028) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-booth-william)
- **William Whiting Borden** (1887–1913 · Missionary to the Hui Muslims of China (Died in Cairo at 25)) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#029, #030) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-borden-william)
- **David J. Bosch** (1929–1992 · South African Missionary & Missiologist) — 1 testimonies (#031) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-bosch-david)
- **David Brainerd** (1718–1747 · Missionary to the Delaware & Susquehannock Indians (Died at 29)) [Martyred on the field] — 8 testimonies (#032, #033, #034, #035, #036, #037, #038, #039) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-brainerd-david)
- **Mike Breen** (Contemporary · Church Planter & Discipleship Leader) — 1 testimonies (#040) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-breen-mike)
- **Phineas F. Bresee** (1838–1915 · Founder of the Peniel Mission & Nazarene Movement) — 1 testimonies (#041) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-bresee-p-f)
- **Emil Brunner** (1889–1966 · Swiss Theologian) — 1 testimonies (#042) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-brunner-emil)
- **David Bryant** (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Prayer Leader) — 2 testimonies (#043, #044) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-bryant-david)
- **William Chalmers Burns** (1815–1868 · Scottish Evangelist & Pioneer Missionary to China (Died in Manchuria)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#045) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-burns-william)
- **James Calvert** (1813–1892 · Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Isles of Fiji) — 1 testimonies (#046) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-calvert-james)
- **William Carey** (1761–1834 · Pioneer Missionary to Serampore, India & Translator of the Bible into 6 Languages) — 7 testimonies (#047, #048, #049, #050, #051, #052, #053) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-carey-william)
- **Thomas John Carlisle** (1913–1992 · Christian Poet & Writer) — 1 testimonies (#054) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-carlisle-thomas)
- **Amy Carmichael** (1867–1951 · Missionary to Dohnavur, India (55 Years Without Furlough)) — 10 testimonies (#055, #056, #057, #058, #059, #060, #061, #062, #063, #064) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-carmichael-amy)
- **Andy Chambers** (Contemporary · Biblical Scholar & Missions Writer) — 1 testimonies (#065) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-chambers-andy)
- **Oswald Chambers** (1874–1917 · YMCA Chaplain to Troops in Egypt (Died at Zeitoun at 43)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#066) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-chambers-oswald)
- **Dr. Eleanor Chesnut** (1868–1905 · Medical Missionary Martyred in Lienchow, China) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#067) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-chesnut-eleanor)
- **G.K. Chesterton** (1874–1936 · English Apologist & Writer) — 1 testimonies (#068) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-chesterton-g-k)
- **Tanna Collins** (d. 1994 · Missionary to China (Perished with Her Husband & Children in China Air Crash)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#069) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-collins-tanna)
- **Ray Comfort** (b. 1949 · Open-Air Evangelist, Living Waters) — 1 testimonies (#070) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-comfort-ray)
- **George M. Cowan** (1916–2006 · Missionary Linguist to the Mazatec of Mexico & Wycliffe President) — 1 testimonies (#071) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-cowan-george)
- **Loren Cunningham** (1935–2023 · Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM)) — 7 testimonies (#072, #073, #074, #075, #076, #077, #078) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-cunningham-loren)
- **Dave Davidson** (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer & Advocate) — 3 testimonies (#079, #080, #081) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-davidson-dave)
- **Roderick Davis** (Contemporary · Missions Strategist) — 1 testimonies (#082) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-davis-roderick)
- **Wesley L. Duewel** (1916–2016 · Missionary to India & President of OMS International) — 1 testimonies (#083) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-duewel-wesley)
- **Alexander Duff** (1806–1878 · First Scottish Missionary to Calcutta, India) — 2 testimonies (#084, #085) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-duff-alexander)
- **Ann Dunagan** (Contemporary · Co-Founder of Harvest Ministry) — 2 testimonies (#086, #087) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-dunagan-ann)
- **Dick Eastman** (Contemporary · President of Every Home for Christ) — 1 testimonies (#088) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-eastman-dick)
- **J. Howard Edington** (Contemporary · Pastor & Missions Writer) — 1 testimonies (#089) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-edington-j-howard)
- **V. Raymond Edman** (1900–1967 · Missionary to Ecuador & President of Wheaton College) — 1 testimonies (#090) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-edman-v-raymond)
- **Jonathan Edwards** (1703–1758 · Preacher, Missionary to Stockbridge Indians & Biographer of Brainerd) — 1 testimonies (#091) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-edwards-jonathan)
- **Elisabeth Elliot** (1926–2015 · Missionary to the Waodani (Auca) of Ecuador) — 1 testimonies (#092) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-elliot-elizabeth)
- **Jim Elliot** (1927–1956 · Missionary Martyr Speared on Palm Beach, Ecuador at 28) [Martyred on the field] — 9 testimonies (#093, #094, #095, #096, #097, #098, #099, #100, #101) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-elliot-jim)
- **Ted W. Engstrom** (1916–2006 · President of World Vision & Youth for Christ) — 1 testimonies (#102) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-engstrom-ted)
- **J.L. Ewen** (19th Century · Baptist Evangelist & Missionary Mobilizer) — 1 testimonies (#103) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-ewen-j-l)
- **Ion Keith-Falconer** (1856–1887 · Scottish Nobleman & Pioneer Missionary to Aden, Arabia (Died of Malaria at 30)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#104) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-falconer-ion-keith)
- **Peter Taylor Forsyth** (1848–1921 · Scottish Theologian) — 1 testimonies (#105) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-forsyth-peter-taylor)
- **Fredrik Franson** (1852–1908 · Swedish-American Evangelist & Founder of TEAM) — 1 testimonies (#106) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-franson-frederick)
- **James O. Fraser** (1886–1938 · Pioneer China Inland Missionary to the Lisu People of Yunnan (Died in Kunming)) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#107, #108) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-fraser-james-o)
- **R. Moffat Gautrey** (1872–1931 · British Methodist Preacher) — 1 testimonies (#109) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-gautrey-r-moffat)
- **John Geddie** (1815–1872 · Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibals of Aneityum, New Hebrides) — 1 testimonies (#110) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-geddie-john)
- **James Gilmour** (1843–1891 · Lone Scottish Pioneer Missionary to Mongolia (Died in Tientsin at 47)) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#111, #112) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-gilmour-james)
- **Dr. Robert Hall Glover** (1871–1947 · Medical Missionary to China & Missions Historian) — 1 testimonies (#113) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-glover-robert-hall)
- **Jonathan Goforth** (1859–1936 · Pioneer Revivalist Missionary to China & Manchuria) — 1 testimonies (#114) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-goforth-jonathan)
- **Keith Green** (1953–1982 · Evangelist & Founder of Last Days Ministries (Died at 28)) — 3 testimonies (#115, #116, #117) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-green-keith)
- **Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell** (1865–1940 · Medical Missionary to Labrador & Newfoundland) — 1 testimonies (#118) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-grenfell-wilfred-thomason)
- **Viv Grigg** (b. 1949 · Urban Slum Missionary in Manila & Founder of Servants to Asia's Urban Poor) — 1 testimonies (#119) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-grigg-viv)
- **Jordan Grooms** (Contemporary · Missions Writer (Adapting Spurgeon's Dictum)) — 1 testimonies (#120) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-grooms-jordan)
- **Nina G. Gunter** (b. 1937 · General Director of Nazarene World Mission Society) — 1 testimonies (#121) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-gunter-nina)
- **Dr. Thomas Hale Jr.** (1937–2023 · Medical Missionary Surgeon in Nepal) — 2 testimonies (#122, #123) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-hale-thomas)
- **Carl F.H. Henry** (1913–2003 · Theologian & Evangelist) — 1 testimonies (#124) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-henry-carl-f-h)
- **Dr. Eddy Ho** (Contemporary · Chinese-American Missiologist & Professor) — 2 testimonies (#125, #126) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-ho-eddy)
- **J. Stuart Holden** (1874–1934 · Home Director of the China Inland Mission) — 1 testimonies (#127) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-holden-j-stuart)
- **Jan Hus (John Hus)** (c. 1372–1415 · Bohemian Reformer & Preacher Burned at the Stake at Constance) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#128) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-hus-jan)
- **Ignatius of Antioch** (c. 35–108 AD · Bishop of Antioch (Thrown to Wild Beasts in the Roman Colosseum)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#129) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-ignatius-of-antioch)
- **David Joannes** (Contemporary · Missionary to Southwest China & Southeast Asia, Within Reach Global) — 2 testimonies (#130, #131) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-joannes-david)
- **Clarence W. Jones** (1900–1986 · Missionary to Ecuador & Co-Founder of HCJB World Radio) — 4 testimonies (#132, #133, #134, #135) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-jones-clarence-w)
- **E. Stanley Jones** (1884–1973 · Methodist Missionary to India) — 1 testimonies (#136) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-jones-e-stanley)
- **Adoniram Judson** (1788–1850 · First American Foreign Missionary, Prisoner at Ava & Translator of the Burmese Bible) [Martyred on the field] — 4 testimonies (#137, #138, #139, #140) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-judson-adoniram)
- **Ann Hasseltine Judson** (1789–1826 · First American Female Foreign Missionary to Burma (Died at 36 After Saving Adoniram at Ava)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#141) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-judson-ann-hasseltine)
- **Sarah Boardman Judson** (1803–1845 · Pioneer Missionary to the Karen Jungles of Burma & Burmese Translator) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#142) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-judson-sarah-boardman)
- **David Kim** (Contemporary · Missions Mobilizer) — 1 testimonies (#143) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-kim-david)
- **Bishop Festo Kivengere** (1919–1988 · Ugandan Evangelist Who Preached Under Idi Amin's Reign of Terror) — 1 testimonies (#144) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-kivengere-festo)
- **Isobel Miller Kuhn** (1901–1957 · China Inland Missionary to the Lisu Tribes of Yunnan & Northern Thailand) — 4 testimonies (#145, #146, #147, #148) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-kuhn-isobel)
- **Edward Lawlor** (1907–1987 · Evangelist & Missions Leader) — 1 testimonies (#149) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-lawlor-edward)
- **Chuck Lenhart** (Contemporary · Frontier Missions Mobilizer) — 1 testimonies (#150) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-lenhart-chuck)
- **C.S. Lewis** (1898–1963 · Christian Apologist & Author) — 2 testimonies (#151, #152) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-lewis-c-s)
- **Eric Liddell** (1902–1945 · Olympic Champion & Missionary to China (Died in Weihsien Internment Camp at 43)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#153) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-liddell-eric)
- **David Livingstone** (1813–1873 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary & Explorer Across Interior Africa (Died on His Knees in Ilala)) [Martyred on the field] — 11 testimonies (#154, #155, #156, #157, #158, #159, #160, #161, #162, #163, #164) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-livingstone-david)
- **Cody Lorance** (Contemporary · Cross-Cultural Missions Pastor) — 1 testimonies (#165) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-lorance-cody)
- **Ron Luce** (b. 1961 · Youth Evangelist & Missions Mobilizer) — 2 testimonies (#166, #167) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-luce-ron)
- **Samuel Marsden** (1765–1838 · Pioneer Missionary to Australia & New Zealand (Apostle to the Maori)) — 1 testimonies (#168) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-marsden-samuel)
- **Frederick Edward Marsh** (1858–1931 · English Bible Teacher & Evangelist) — 1 testimonies (#169) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-marsh-f-e)
- **Henry Martyn** (1781–1812 · Missionary & Bible Translator to India and Persia (Died in Tokat at 31)) [Martyred on the field] — 3 testimonies (#170, #171, #172) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-martyn-henry)
- **George Miley** (Contemporary · Co-Founder of Operation Mobilization Ships & Church Planter) — 1 testimonies (#173) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-miley-george)
- **Robert Moffat** (1795–1883 · 50-Year Scottish Pioneer Missionary to South Africa & Translator of the Setswana Bible) — 2 testimonies (#174, #175) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-moffat-robert)
- **Charlotte 'Lottie' Moon** (1840–1912 · 39-Year Missionary to Tengchow, China (Starved During Famine Relief)) [Martyred on the field] — 3 testimonies (#176, #177, #178) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-moon-lottie)
- **Johann Leonhard Dober & David Nitschmann** (1732 · First Moravian Missionaries to the Enslaved Peoples of St. Thomas) — 1 testimonies (#179) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-moravian-brethren-dober-nitschmann)
- **Patrick Morley** (b. 1949 · Founder of Man in the Mirror Ministries) — 1 testimonies (#180) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-morley-pat)
- **J.G. Morrison** (1871–1939 · Depression-Era Foreign Missions Leader) — 1 testimonies (#181) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-morrison-j-g)
- **Robert Morrison** (1782–1834 · First Protestant Missionary to China & Translator of the Chinese Bible (Died in Canton)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#182) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-morrison-robert)
- **John R. Mott** (1865–1955 · Leader of the Student Volunteer Movement) — 1 testimonies (#183) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-mott-john-r)
- **George Müller** (1805–1898 · Founder of the Ashley Down Orphanages & 17-Year World Missionary Evangelist) — 2 testimonies (#184, #185) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-muller-george)
- **Andrew Murray** (1828–1917 · South African Pastor, Revivalist & Missions Advocate) — 1 testimonies (#186) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-murray-andrew)
- **Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng)** (1903–1972 · Chinese Church Leader Who Died in an Anhui Labor Camp After 20 Years in Prison) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#187, #188) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-nee-watchman)
- **Michael Oh** (b. 1971 · Missionary to Nagoya, Japan & Global Leader of Lausanne) — 1 testimonies (#189) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-oh-michael)
- **Gordon C. Olson** (1907–1989 · Missions Bible Teacher) — 1 testimonies (#190) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-olson-gordon)
- **T.L. Osborn** (1923–2013 · Mass-Crusade Missionary Evangelist to Over 70 Nations) — 1 testimonies (#191) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-osborn-t-l)
- **George Otis Jr.** (Contemporary · Founder of The Sentinel Group & Missions Researcher) — 1 testimonies (#192) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-otis-george)
- **Harlan Page** (1791–1834 · New England Carpenter, Tract Distributor & Personal Soul-Winner) — 1 testimonies (#193) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-page-harlan)
- **Luis Palau** (1934–2021 · Argentine-Born International Evangelist) — 1 testimonies (#194) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-palau-luis)
- **John G. Paton** (1824–1907 · Scottish Pioneer Missionary to the Cannibal Islands of the New Hebrides (Tanna & Aniwa)) — 6 testimonies (#195, #196, #197, #198, #199, #200) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-paton-john-g)
- **Patrick of Ireland** (c. 385–461 AD · Former Captive Slave Who Returned as Pioneer Missionary to Pagan Ireland) — 1 testimonies (#201) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-patrick-of-ireland)
- **John Coleridge Patteson** (1827–1871 · Missionary Bishop to Melanesia (Martyred on Nukapu Island with 5 Wounds)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#202) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-patteson-john-coleridge)
- **Paul the Apostle** (1st Century AD · Apostle to the Gentiles (Beheaded in Rome under Nero)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#203) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-paul)
- **J.D. Payne** (Contemporary · Missiologist & Church Planting Strategist) — 1 testimonies (#204) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-payne-j-d)
- **Major William Evander Penn** (1832–1895 · Texas Baptist Evangelist & Hymn Writer) — 1 testimonies (#205) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-penn-william-e)
- **George W. Peters** (1907–1988 · Mennonite Brethren Missionary & Author of A Biblical Theology of Missions) — 2 testimonies (#206, #207) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-peters-george-w)
- **Bob Pierce** (1914–1978 · War Correspondent & Founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse) — 1 testimonies (#208) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-pierce-bob)
- **Arthur T. Pierson** (1837–1911 · Editor of The Missionary Review of the World & Mentor to Mott, Speer, and Zwemer) — 2 testimonies (#209, #210) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-pierson-arthur-t)
- **John Piper** (b. 1946 · Pastor & Author of Let the Nations Be Glad) — 10 testimonies (#211, #212, #213, #214, #215, #216, #217, #218, #219, #220) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-piper-john)
- **David Platt** (b. 1978 · Pastor, Former IMB President & Author of Radical) — 3 testimonies (#221, #222, #223) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-platt-david)
- **Polycarp of Smyrna** (69–155 AD · Disciple of the Apostle John & Bishop of Smyrna (Burned & Speared in the Roman Arena)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#224) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-polycarp-of-smyrna)
- **Jackie Pullinger** (b. 1944 · Missionary to the Walled City of Kowloon, Hong Kong) — 1 testimonies (#225) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-pullinger-jackie)
- **Jerry Rankin** (b. 1942 · Missionary to Indonesia & President of the International Mission Board) — 1 testimonies (#226) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-rankin-jerry)
- **Leonard Ravenhill** (1907–1994 · English Revivalist Preacher & Author of Why Revival Tarries) — 4 testimonies (#227, #228, #229, #230) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-ravenhill-leonard)
- **Eleanor Roat** (20th Century · Missions Mobilizer to Africa) — 1 testimonies (#231) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-roat-eleanor)
- **Nate Saint** (1923–1956 · Missionary Bush Pilot Martyred by the Waodani (Auca) on Palm Beach, Ecuador) [Martyred on the field] — 3 testimonies (#232, #233, #234) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-saint-nate)
- **Robert C. Savage** (1914–1987 · Missionary to Colombia & Ecuador with HCJB and Latin America Mission) — 1 testimonies (#235) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-savage-robert)
- **Betty Scott Stam** (1906–1934 · China Inland Missionary Beheaded with Her Husband John Stam in Jingde, China at 28) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#236) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-scott-stam-betty)
- **Robert C. Shannon** (20th Century · Preacher & Missions Writer) — 1 testimonies (#237) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-shannon-robert-c)
- **M. David Sills** (Contemporary · Missionary to Ecuador & Author of The Missionary Call) — 12 testimonies (#238, #239, #240, #241, #242, #243, #244, #245, #246, #247, #248, #249) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-sills-david)
- **Albert Benjamin Simpson** (1843–1919 · Founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA)) — 2 testimonies (#250, #251) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-simpson-a-b)
- **Sadhu Sundar Singh** (1889–c. 1929 · 'The Apostle of the Bleeding Feet' — Barefoot Indian Missionary Who Vanished in Tibet) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#252, #253) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-singh-sadhu-sundar)
- **David Sitton** (Contemporary · Missionary to Papua New Guinea & Founder of To Every Tribe) — 2 testimonies (#254, #255) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-sitton-david)
- **Mary Slessor** (1848–1915 · Scottish Mill Girl & 39-Year Pioneer Missionary to the Okoyong of Calabar, Nigeria) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#256, #257) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-slessor-mary)
- **Oswald J. Smith** (1889–1986 · Missionary Statesman & Founder of The Peoples Church, Toronto) — 11 testimonies (#258, #259, #260, #261, #262, #263, #264, #265, #266, #267, #268) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-smith-oswald-j)
- **David Smithers** (Contemporary · Revival Historian & Founder of Awake & Go Ministries) — 1 testimonies (#269) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-smithers-david)
- **Robert E. Speer** (1867–1947 · Presbyterian Foreign Missions Leader for 46 Years) — 2 testimonies (#270, #271) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-speer-robert)
- **Charles Haddon Spurgeon** (1834–1892 · 'The Prince of Preachers', Metropolitan Tabernacle, London) — 5 testimonies (#272, #273, #274, #275, #276) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-spurgeon-charles-h)
- **Mike Stachura** (Contemporary · Missions Pastor & Mobilizer) — 1 testimonies (#277) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-stachura-mike)
- **John Cornelius Stam** (1907–1934 · China Inland Missionary Beheaded with His Wife Betty in Jingde, China at 27) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#278) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-stam-john)
- **James S. Stewart** (1896–1990 · Scottish Preacher & Chaplain) — 1 testimonies (#279) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-stewart-james-s)
- **John R.W. Stott** (1921–2011 · Architect of the 1974 Lausanne Covenant) — 4 testimonies (#280, #281, #282, #283) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-stott-john-r-w)
- **R. Kenneth Strachan** (1910–1965 · Missionary to Costa Rica & Director of the Latin America Mission) — 1 testimonies (#284) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-strachan-kenneth)
- **Wendi Stranz** (Contemporary · Missions Advocate) — 1 testimonies (#285) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-stranz-wendi)
- **Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd** (1860–1931 · Missionary to China, India, and the Belgian Congo & Founder of WEC (Died in the Congo)) [Martyred on the field] — 10 testimonies (#286, #287, #288, #289, #290, #291, #292, #293, #294, #295) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-studd-c-t)
- **Dr. John Sung (Song Shangjie)** (1901–1944 · 'The John Wesley of China' — Revivalist Across China & Southeast Asia (Died at 42)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#296) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-sung-john)
- **Leonard Sweet** (b. 1947 · Theologian & Church Historian) — 1 testimonies (#297) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-sweet-len)
- **J. Hudson Taylor** (1832–1905 · Pioneer to Inland China & Founder of the China Inland Mission (Died in Changsha)) [Martyred on the field] — 12 testimonies (#298, #299, #300, #301, #302, #303, #304, #305, #306, #307, #308, #309) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-taylor-j-hudson)
- **Mendell Taylor** (1912–1999 · Church Historian & Missions Educator) — 1 testimonies (#310) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-taylor-mendell)
- **Corrie ten Boom** (1892–1983 · Dutch Watchmaker, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Survivor & World Evangelist) — 2 testimonies (#311, #312) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-ten-boom-corrie)
- **Mother Teresa** (1910–1997 · Missionary to the Dying Destitute of Calcutta, India) — 1 testimonies (#313) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-teresa-mother)
- **Isabella Thoburn** (1840–1901 · Pioneer Educator & Missionary to Lucknow, India (Died of Cholera in Lucknow)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#314) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-thoburn-isabella)
- **Robert Jermain Thomas** (1839–1866 · First Protestant Martyr of Korea (Beheaded on the Taedong River Handing Out Chinese Bibles)) [Martyred on the field] — 1 testimonies (#315) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-thomas-robert-jermain)
- **William Cameron Townsend** (1896–1982 · Kaqchikel Bible Translator in Guatemala & Founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators) — 1 testimonies (#316) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-townsend-william-cameron)
- **A.W. Tozer** (1897–1963 · Prophetic Preacher & Author of The Pursuit of God) — 3 testimonies (#317, #318, #319) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-tozer-a-w)
- **William Tyndale** (1494–1536 · Translator of the English Bible (Strangled & Burned at the Stake at Vilvoorde)) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#320, #321) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-tyndale-william)
- **George Verwer** (1938–2023 · Founder of Operation Mobilization (OM)) — 2 testimonies (#322, #323) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-verwer-george)
- **Kurt von Schleicher** (20th Century · Attributed in Missions Literature) — 1 testimonies (#324) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-von-schleicher-kurt)
- **Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf** (1700–1760 · Leader of the Herrnhut Moravian Brethren & the 100-Year Prayer Watch) — 4 testimonies (#325, #326, #327, #328) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-von-zinzendorf-nicolaus-ludwig)
- **Wang Mingdao** (1900–1991 · Dean of the Chinese Underground House Church (23 Years in Communist Prisons)) — 1 testimonies (#329) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wang-mingdao)
- **Karen Denise Watson** (1965–2004 · Missionary Martyred in Mosul, Iraq (From Her Sealed Letter Opened After Death)) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#330, #331) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-watson-karen)
- **John Wesley** (1703–1791 · Missionary to Georgia & Open-Air Revivalist (250,000 Miles on Horseback)) — 4 testimonies (#332, #333, #334, #335) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wesley-john)
- **George Whitefield** (1714–1770 · Transatlantic Revivalist Who Crossed the Atlantic 13 Times & Preached 18,000 Sermons) [Martyred on the field] — 2 testimonies (#336, #337) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-whitefield-george)
- **William Wilberforce** (1759–1833 · Christian Abolitionist & Champion of British Missions to India) — 2 testimonies (#338, #339) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wilberforce-william)
- **George Wilson** (20th Century · Evangelist & Missions Mobilizer) — 1 testimonies (#340) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wilson-george)
- **Dr. Ralph D. Winter** (1924–2009 · Missionary to Guatemala & Founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission) — 3 testimonies (#341, #342, #343) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-winter-ralph)
- **Christopher J.H. Wright** (b. 1947 · Missionary Educator in India & Author of The Mission of God) — 2 testimonies (#344, #345) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wright-chris)
- **Richard Wurmbrand** (1909–2001 · Romanian Pastor Tortured 14 Years in Communist Prisons & Founder of The Voice of the Martyrs) — 3 testimonies (#346, #347, #348) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wurmbrand-richard)
- **John Wycliffe** (c. 1328–1384 · 'The Morning Star of the Reformation' & Pioneer of the English Bible) — 1 testimonies (#349) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-wycliffe-john)
- **Francis Xavier** (1506–1552 · Pioneer Missionary to India, Malacca, and Japan (Died on Shangchuan Island)) [Martyred on the field] — 3 testimonies (#350, #351, #352) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-xavier-francis)
- **K.P. Yohannan** (1950–2024 · Founder of Gospel for Asia & Author of Revolution in World Missions) — 8 testimonies (#353, #354, #355, #356, #357, #358, #359, #360) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-yohannan-k-p)
- **Samuel Marinus Zwemer** (1867–1952 · 'The Apostle to Islam' — Pioneer Missionary to Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt) — 5 testimonies (#361, #362, #363, #364, #365) (https://deadhidden.org/missionary-quotes#witness-zwemer-samuel)