Missionary Quotes - Page 12

• The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the peace of God passes all understanding, and that kept my heart and mind. We put a calm front on, put out our stand daily, and carried ourselves as if nothing had happened. The great thought of my mind in these days, - and the great object of my life, - is to be like Christ. As He was in the world, so we are to be. He was in the world to manifest God; we are in the world to manifest Christ.

  James Gilmour

  Song, Heart, Understanding

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• As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Light, Feelings, Church

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• Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Self Confidence, Mountain, Impossible

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Meaningful, Book, People

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• Oh, what a favored people we are to have this light, this knowledge, these opportunities for happiness on earth and throughout the eternities. May we commit to share a knowledge of this magnificent work, personally or through missionaries, with our friends and neighbors that they may join this kingdom of God on earth, and receive the consummate, eternal blessings available to them.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessing, Opportunity, Light

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• Now, I think our prophet today is telling all of us, in this day and time, to go and bring in those people who are out on the plains. Each worthy young man should go on a mission. And each one of us, though we may not be called to active missionary service, can be on a mission and be involved in a cause that is greater than we are, the greatest cause of all in the world: the salvation of each of our Father's children.

  James E. Faust

  Children, Father, Men

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

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Rewards, Joyful, Easy

  "A Visit with Elder Gordon B. Hinckley about Missionary Work". Interview with Brian Kelly, www.lds.org. June 1973.

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• I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Church, Doe, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Imperfection, Judgemental

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• Have you taught a Sunday School class and felt when you finished that you had really taught someone some principle of the gospel that had really helped him or given him a brighter look on life? Remember the feeling of peace and joy that followed? Have you ever taught someone the gospel and received that feeling of joy because he had accepted what you had been teaching? The thrill of missionary work!

  Eldred G. Smith

  Teaching, School, Sunday

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

  LeGrand Richards

  Jesus, Church, Spirit

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• Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

  John Taylor

  Men, Duty

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• Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Saint, Lasts, Spirit

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• We have heard that we are all missionaries. Every member ... is or ought to be a missionary; ... as members of the Church, having pledged ourselves to the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ we become missionaries. That is part of the responsibility of every member of the Church

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Jesus, Responsibility, Church

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• Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Men, Joy

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• We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth. ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands

  G. Homer Durham

  Responsibility, Israel, Hands

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• Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Blessed, Men, Years

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• This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Christian, Heart, Years

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• God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

  Hudson Taylor

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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• All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

  John Piper

  Army, Sacrifice, Self

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Important, World

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• The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.

  L. Tom Perry

  Light, World, Ends

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Custodians, Messages, Modern

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• There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Important, Messages, Divine

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