Missionary Quotes - Page 13

• I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

  James O. Fraser

  Christian, Teacher, Prayer

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 269), 1998.

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• It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

  David Bryant

  Church, Causes, Christianity

  David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

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• I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Arrows, Judgment, Christianity

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• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Block, Pride, Zion

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

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Real, Character, Tests

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

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Men, Missions

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord's children

  Lorenzo Snow

  Children, Men, Preaching The Gospel

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

  David Livingstone

  Night, Stills

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• If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Spiritual, Church, Ifs

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.254, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Difficult, Know How, Knows

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Differences, Giving

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• I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Distance, Heart, Voice

  "The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Children, Joy, Serious

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