#TranslationTuesday
“One doesn’t learn to speak a language in a couple of months. It will be plugging for a good while yet. Seems that I’ll never get through ‘preparing’ for the mission field.”
— Jim Elliot
“One doesn’t learn to speak a language in a couple of months. It will be plugging for a good while yet. Seems that I’ll never get through ‘preparing’ for the mission field.”
— Jim Elliot
"I cannot express how greatly I enjoy the work of translating, and how the real meaning of different texts would thrill through my mind."
— Julia E. Smith
"As Christians, our mission is not only to spread the good news but to become the good news, embodying Christ's love in all our actions."
— Darren Carlson
"The unoccupied fields of the world await those who are willing to be lonely for the sake of Christ."
— Samuel Zwemer
“Let us, by translating the Scriptures, open a fountain of life, accessible to all, where all may drink to their fill.”
— William Carey
“My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus’ words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.”
— David Platt
"The gospel advances at the rate of relationships."
— Jurie Kriel
"To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him."
— William Carey
“The Scriptures in my language helps me understand that God is not far from me when I am suffering.”
– Nyami, North Africa
“There is not something called Christianity and then missionaries who spread it. Christianity is in its very essence a mission to the world. If it is not reaching, teaching, baptizing, and multiplying disciples, it is not Christianity."
— Michael Horton