Are Missionaries Wasting Their Lives?

People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

— Nate Saint (August 30, 1923 – January 8, 1956, missionary pilot and along with Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian, killed by Huaorani tribal people [also known as Aucas] in 1956)