Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

The Son of God had missionary supporters

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

This isn't missionary work. This is missionary fun.

Today, 112 years later, 94% of the people in the world recognize the Coca-Cola logo and product. In 112 years, we can reach the world for profit's sake, but we cannot do it for the glory of God in 2,000 years.

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.

When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

Always work enthusiastically.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.

A man may die leaving upwards of a million, without taking any of it upwards.

A mighty fortress is our God, and in Him we are safe for time and for eternity. Shall we murmur if we have less of time than we expected? The less of time, the more of heaven. The briefer life, earlier mortality.

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Can’t you do just a little bit more? pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries)

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.

Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.