Marinus Quotes

Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning Flora Japonica to be published one day
as a votive offering to human knowledge
but a seat at Uppsala, or Leiden, or Cambridge, holds no allure. My heart is the East's in this lifetime. This is my third year in Nagasaki, and I have work enough for another three, or six. During the court embassy I can see landscapes no European botanist ever saw. My seminarians are keen young men
with one young woman
and visiting scholars bring me specimens from all over the empire. ~ David Mitchell

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. ~ David Mitchell

The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer

The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness. ~ David Mitchell

Marinus blows out a mouthful of air. Did close-range artillery knock any sense into you, or are we staying? ~ David Mitchell

I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer