Robert Moffat Quotes

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.

We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them.

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.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.

No amount of cost-counting, however, and no amount of training in cross-cultural ministry can fully prepare us for what we will face, whether leaving home for a third-world country or a more modern country. I think Mike Tyson articulated this best (yes, the boxer, of all people). He said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.