Inspiring world missions slogans, mottos, and quotes

TL;DR:
This webpage offers a curated collection of powerful world missions slogans, mottos, and quotes from Christian leaders, missionaries, and thinkers. These memorable sayings can inspire global evangelism, stir missionary zeal, and provide motivational material for lectures, sermons, and event promotion.

• Christian leaders have pithy sayings like these to stress the biblical call to spread the Gospel worldwide.
• Global missions slogans and sayings like these have created and intensified zeal in Christ-followers for supporting and participating in cross-cultural missions efforts worldwide.

"Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached" — David Bryant in In the Gap

Powerful World Christian sayings: Famous quotes about global missions

Fulfilling Christ's Great Commission

"From everywhere to everyone." — Samuel Escobar

Do you need a reason for being involved in global mission? Do you need inspiration, ideas, or a rallying cry for a sermon or message on world missions? Are you involved in teaching or learning about global outreach? Would you like to sense the burden and hear the cry of a cross-cultural missionary's heart? Need some wall plaques or banners with mottos for a Faith Promise event? Do you need a slogan for a special missions Sunday? Quotations from missionary giants like William Carey and Hudson Taylor have served to inspire passion for and involvement in the Christian global missionary movement.

Why missions? World evangelism has advanced under the banner of inspiring missionary slogans, mottos, and quotes like these on this page:

Quotes on Missionary Work

Note: The quotes appear in alphabetical order based on the author's last name.

"A church that is not a missionary church is contradicting itself and quenching the Spirit." – Lausanne Covenant

Reflections on a dozen challenging world missions slogans and mottos | Slogans on PowerPoint slides

Christian quotes about missions

• "Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" — Roland Allen
• "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.
• "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." — David Bosch
• "No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" — said of William “Bill” Borden's life by his biographer Mrs. Howard Taylor
• "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?" — William “Bill” Borden
• "We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it" — P.F. Bresee (blog in Engage magazine)

"Do these quotes not put the weight of the world's salvation on your heart? No, not one of us will be able to reach all ends of the earth. However, many of us together can." — Karen Allore, children's pastor

— compiled by Howard Culbertson, hculbert@snu.edu

¹ Who was the first to use the phrase Great Commission? It may have been Dutch missionary Justinian von Welz (1621–1688). Nearly 200 years later, Hudson Taylor really popularized the use of the phrase "Great Commission" to describe Matthew 28:19–20.

Reflection Questions

1. What are some of the best reasons and motivations given in these quotes for us to be involved in world missions?
2. Which of these slogans might best challenge and inspire Christians you know to action?
3. Which of these sayings best expresses for you the responsibility and urgency of sharing the gospel with those still totally unreached by the Gospel message?
4. What do these quotes have to say about the need for personal sacrifice in fulfilling the Great Commission? Which of them speak most clearly about the need for prayer and obedience?

What does God's Word say about missions?

Christ's Great Commission in Matthew 28 is just the tip of the iceberg. The Bible is chock-full of missionary material!

"Our goal: Depopulate hell. Our strategy: Go to the four corners of the Earth and raise as many churches as possible so to give all the nations the opportunity to hear the Gospel message." — Veronica Roesly, Nazarene Bible College Student

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