Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

Reverence invites Revelation

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.

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.

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

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.