Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

This is my life. This is my calling.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

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

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

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 live life not only for ourselves but for others.

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

We ought to love, encourage and support each other.

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

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

Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.

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

Work with enthusiasm.

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Christ through proclaiming the gospel, perfecting our lives, and redeeming our dead. As we come unto Christ, we bless our own lives, those of our families, and our Father in Heaven's children, both living and dead. . . . "I pray that we will be obedient to God, learn His will and do it, and, above all, that we will keep the first and great commandment-to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength" ("Come Unto Christ," April 1988 General Conference).

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

You must put all your heart into everything you do.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

You see Jesus wrecked my life

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach to be effective. We must not forget that the Lord Himself provided the Book of Mormon as His chief witness. The Book of Mormon is still our most powerful missionary tool. Let us use it.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

Fear God and work hard.

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.