Missionary Quotes - Page 17

• It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Beautiful, Mind, Done

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

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• 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.

  George Verwer

  Church, Truth Is, Missions

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• This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer program anywhere in the world than we have in the Church today for the building of men and women and providing the answers to the problems that face parents, families, and individuals. It is a program that is needed today as never before.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Men, Church Today

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Discovery, May

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• We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.

  Paul Washer

  Years, Earth, Way

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2010

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• We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Attitude, Agency, Healthy

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• Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption, of lifting and saving those who need help. Ours is a task of raising the sights of those of our people who fail to realize the great potential that lies within them.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Lying, Sight

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• All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

  Jonathan Goforth

  Christianity, Resources, Missions

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• Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."

  John Gibson Paton

  Christian, Jesus, Years

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

  R. A. Torrey

  Home, Men, Effectiveness

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• God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

  Daniel Palmer

  Sacrifice, Helping, Program

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  World, Missions, Duty

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• One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Book, Garden

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

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• It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Body, Preacher, Organisation

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• No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women.

  Isabella Thoburn

  People, Higher

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• Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

  David Bryant

  Christian, Our World, Church

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• The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Epic, Soul, Tragedy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Carlton Pearson

  Faith, Believe, Sometimes

  Carlton Pearson (1992). “I've got a feelin' everything's gonna be all right”

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• An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Heart, Charity, Tongue

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• Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

  Charles Studd

  Home, Pride, Men

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• The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Inspiration, Secret

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

  Ray Thompson

  Texas, Baptists, World

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• One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men and women [...] to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes.' As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, People, Church

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• How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

  Lottie Moon

  Jesus, Easter, Needs

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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