Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.

I was discovering that the cross of Christ meant more then joy and peace. It meant suffering, too- suffering that was necessary to bring a later hope.

I wish you believe, not for myprofit, but for yours. I daily pray the true God give you light, that you may believe. Whether you will ever believe in tis world I do not know, but when you die I know you will believe what I now say. You will then appear before God you now deny. - Adorinam Judson to his Burman teacher.

Living according to God's truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Living according to God's truth means not following the crowd and not being dismayed when even your friends misunderstand you. For the God whom you serve will have the final word. On the day of judgement he will speak the final word over the whole of your life.

Missions is practicing God’s presence until His passion compels us to obey.

May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.

Nothing can happen to me that hasn’t gone through His hand first. If He wants to deliver me, He will. If He doesn’t, He has a good reason for it.

O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.

May the Spirit of God empower you with divine strength to accomplish your mission on earth.

Missions is not just for missionaries; God’s call is for all.

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

Montrose leaned forward. “Jacob, what's wrong with you? Why would you want to do this? What kind of husband . . . what kind of man are you?” “I don't know.” Jacob's voice was a whisper. “But before I pledged myself to Annie, I pledged myself to God.” “I hope you know what you're doing.” Montrose glanced back towards the kitchen. In their silence, they heard Annie's low sobs. “I hope it's worth it.

One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

Serve one another with great humility.

That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas it has never been before!

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

The early Mormons were even less concerned about ministerial training. On several occasions, a man heard a discourse, submitted to baptism and confirmation, received a call to priesthood, and was sent on a mission - all on the same day. Canadian Samuel Hall, for instance, found a Latter-Day Saint tract on a Montreal street and traveled to Nauvoo to hear the teachings of Joseph Smith himself. On the day of his arrival, he heard a sermon by Smith, requested baptism, received ordination, and started on a mission - without even pausing to change his wet clothes.

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

The Lord’s gracious hand is upon us. We will begin the good work.

Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.

The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christlike example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts.

The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.

The greatest conduct is love in action.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

We live life not only for ourselves but for others.

The beauty of life is sharing life.

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

The sacred path leads to destiny destination.

This is my life. This is my calling.

To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God's law. This is why Christians have a choice to make, either to trade in their loyalty to God for freedom from persecution, or to remain true to Christ and consequently run the risk of persecution.

We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit.

We are called to proclaim His great Salvation and rescue the captives…. But we are busy spending 33 billion a year in diet products for ourselves or for our over weight cats. We are busy redecorating our temporal housing, We are spending every evening for our own pleasure, and every spare dollar for our won retirement. And somehow the unreached in their life and death eternal struggle slip our minds and concern… we never get around to being serious about Jesus and his command to take the good news to them.

We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives

We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We can serve humanity with our divine passions and gifted skills.

We have been called by God; we must live life worthy of our calling.

We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

We ought to love, encourage and support each other.

We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.

Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.

Work with enthusiasm.