We were enabled to renounce a life of usefulness in another and more distant land.
Thomas Barnardo’s description of his call to work in London’s East End, when he had previously thought he was being called to be a missionary in China
The awareness of a need and the capacity to meet that need: this constitutes a call.
John R. Mott
Millions have never heard of Jesus. We ought not to ask, “Can I prove that I ought to go?” but, “Can I prove that I ought not to go?”
C.H. Spurgeon
Cannibals Need Missionaries.
Poster outside a Liverpool hall, advertising a meeting at which C.T. Studd heard of the need of Africa for missionaries.
Go not to those who want you, but to those who want you most.
John Wesley