William Cameron Townsend
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.Collection: Mother
Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.Collection: Heart
Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less.Collection: Missionary
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work.Collection: Prayer