"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" - Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador

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."

"Here am I. Send me. " - Isaiah

"All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!" - Jonathan Goforth

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." - Robert C. Shannon