Missionary

🇺🇸Dwight L. Moody

Business

Higher Life movement

1837–1899

"If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?"

🇬🇧Saint Patrick

Religion

385–461

"The History of Saint Patrick" at IrishAbroad"

🇺🇸Walter Rauschenbusch

Philosophy

1861–1918

"The social effects which are usually enumerated do not constitute a reconstruction of society on a Christian basis, but were mainly a suppression of some of the most glaring evils in the social system of the time."

🇺🇸Pearl S. Buck

Literature

1892–1973

"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought."

🇺🇸Ellen G. White

religious leader

1827–1915

"The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone."

🇬🇧John Stott

Religion

1921–2011

"Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love."

🇮🇪Amy Carmichael

Literature

1867–1951

"One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving"

🇬🇧Lesslie Newbigin

Literature

1909–1998

"Newbigin.Net: Online Bibliography and Documents"

🇳🇿Ray Comfort

Politics

b. 1949

"Only humans have the ability to know that God exists, yet still deny His existence."

Mother Teresa

Religion

1910–1997

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

Ramon Llull

Philosophy

1232–1316

"Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth."

🇺🇸John Grisham

Law

b. 1955

"My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books."

🇺🇸Danny Yamashiro

Politics

b. 1967

"Focus not only on identifying problems. Others will do that for you. Develop the skill of finding solutions to those problems. Do this and your stock will go up!"

Shunryu Suzuki

Religion

Buddhism

1904–1971

"When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time."

🇸🇪Ulf Ekman

Religion

b. 1950

"Three words Authority, Sacraments, Unity. Or put it another way: One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church."

🇬🇧Thomas Chalmers

Politics

1780–1847

"Be assured, my dear Anne, that it is only by taking our lesson from God and doing the will of God, that we can either please Him in time, or be happy with Him in eternity."

🇺🇸Orson Pratt

Mathematics

1811–1881

"Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America…"

🇳🇴Elias Aslaksen

Literature

1888–1976

"Faith in the Word of Life is the strongest power that exists in the universe."

James Hudson Taylor

Medicine

1832–1905

"You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself."

🇬🇧David Livingstone

Medicine

1813–1873

"The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen."

🇺🇸Kenneth Scott Latourette

Politics

1884–1968

"Truculent and lawless, regarding all Eastern peoples as legitimate prey, they were little if any better than . . . pirates."

🇺🇸Frances E. Willard

Social Activism

1839–1898

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

🇺🇸William Ernest Hocking

Philosophy

1873–1966

"Religion is bound up in the difference between the sense of ignorance and the sense of mystery: the former means, "I know not"; the latter means "I know not; but it is known."

🇺🇸Fanny Crosby

Music

1820–1915

"National Cyclopedia of Biography article at Wholesome Words"

🇺🇸Katherine Paterson

Literature

b. 1932

"Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts."

"Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does."

🇮🇹Francis of Assisi

Religion

1182–1226

"We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh, but, instead, we must be simple, humble and pure."

🇫🇷Marguerite Bourgeoys

Education

1620–1700

"It is true that all I have ever desired most deeply and what I still most ardently wish is that the great precept of the love of God above all things and of the neighbour as oneself be written in every heart."

🇳🇬T. B. Joshua

1963–2021

"“Adopting a lifestyle that is on purpose provides an opportunity to enrich others by leaving your imprint in a positive way."

🇺🇸Adoniram Judson Gordon

Music

1836–1895

"A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart — this is what is needed."

🇺🇸Ann Lee

Literature

1736–1784

"You can never enter the kingdom of God with hardness against any one, for God is love, and if you love God you will love one another."

🇬🇧Smith Wigglesworth

1859–1947

"Only believe, only believe. All things are possible, only believe."

🇺🇸Jim Elliot

Music

1926–1956

"He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose."

Hugo Grotius

Literature

1583–1645

"So is there no kind of life more wicked than that of mercenary Souldiers, who without any respect had to the equity of the Cause, fight only for plunder and pay."