Missionary Quotes - Page 22

• The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

  Ellen G. White

  Spirit, Christ

  Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 5. The Great Controversy—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Reality, Thinking, Views

  Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage

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• A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Teacher, Attitude, Heart

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

  Hudson Taylor

  Jesus, Spirit, Crosses

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• These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.

  Anne Royall

  Christian, Mother, Running

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• You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

  Steven C. Hawthorne

  Purpose, Christianity, Come Up

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• Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

  Vance Havner

  Captains, Boat, Said

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• Far away is far away only if you don't go there.

  George Otis

  Far Away, Ifs

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• Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation

  David Shibley

  Christian, Our Generation, Generations

  David Shibley (2001). “The Missions Addiction”, p.219, Charisma Media

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• Formal theological teaching in Africa is deeply rooted in the Western missionary movement . However, in practice, the church wrestles with how to bring theology to bear on the realities it faces in the context.

  Ed McBain

  Teaching, Reality, Church

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Slave Ships, Light, Sharks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.530, Library of America

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• In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Church, Covenant, This Life

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

  Harold B. Lee

  Character, Order, Practice

  Harold B. Lee (1973). “Youth & the church”

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• When I moved into one of the worst inner-cities in America to do missionary work I had to do risk assessment, and It was a risk. My family could have been in danger, house could get robbed at any minute but I count it all as nothing compared to knowing Jesus it was all worth it at the end of the day.

  LeCrae

  Jesus, Assessment, Cities

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.

  Watchman Nee

  Book, Men, Religion

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.89, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Selfless, Way

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• Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

  David Kim

  Heart, Fields, Christ

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• Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Bishops, Truth Is

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

  Olaf Stapledon

  Olaf, Barbarians, Strange

  1930 Last and First Men, ch.3.

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• Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

  Herman Melville

  Moon, Pagan, Poor

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4907, Delphi Classics

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• God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.

  George Otis

  Fighting, People, Fairs

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• 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.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Religious, Vigor

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• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, African Tribes, Might

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157, 1957.

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• I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can't support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.

  Russell Means

  Christian, Support, Church

  Source: progressive.org

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• The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

  Darrin Patrick

  Years, Two, Keys

  Matt Carter, Darrin Patrick (2011). “For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel”, p.69, Harper Collins

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