Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.

The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings.

The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

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 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 Son of God had missionary supporters

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.

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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