Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition.  He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.

Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.

May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

Let us remember: trials are an evidence of a Father's love.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation

No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.