Missionary Quotes - Page 20

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

  Roland Allen

  Want, Results, Method

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• What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Doctrine, Needs

  Roland Allen (2012). “Missionary Principles and Practice”, p.78, The Lutterworth Press

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• I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success.

  Griffith John

  Eight, Years, Vision

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• Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

  David Bryant

  Prayer, Blow, Winning

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Religion, Missions

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• Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Grace, Ordinary, Knows

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• The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Opportunity, Church, Tasks

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• No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

  Richard G. Scott

  Lasting, Determine, Labor

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• But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.

  James Gilmour

  Men, Common Sense, Together

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that light, so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking to assign a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

  James Gilmour

  Home, Light, Choices

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• Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Yesterday, Needs, World

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• We must share the gospel with others. That is our responsibility-every member a missionary. That is the call of prophets of God. ...Member-missionary work is one of the great keys to the individual growth of our members. It is my conviction that member-missionary work will raise the spirituality in any ward where applied

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Responsibility, Keys, Growth

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• Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth

  Howard W. Hunter

  Responsibility, People, Earth

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• What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others. ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessing, Desire, Doe

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• We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Responsibility, Men

  "This Is the Work of the Master" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 1995.

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• Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Praying, Awareness

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• Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends on people first hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and coming into the faith. ... With all that there is to do along the path to eternal life, we need a lot more missionaries opening that gate and helping people through it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, People, Church

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• None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Honor, Compassionate

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• Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.

  William J. Critchlow, Jr.

  Father, Church, World

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• God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Mean, People, Doe

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

  Ray Thompson

  Texas, Baptists, World

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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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• 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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• Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

  Max Muller

  Church, Band, World

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