Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

The beauty of life is sharing life.

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

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

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

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

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

The greatest conduct is love in action.

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

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.

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

The sacred path leads to destiny destination.

This is my life. This is my calling.

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

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.

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.

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 all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

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 serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

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 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.

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

Work with enthusiasm.

You must put all your heart into everything you do.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

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.

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

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 to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.

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

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).

You see Jesus wrecked my life

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.