Missionary Quotes - Page 25

• In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Differences, Preparation

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• Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

  Mike Rowe

  Wise, Important, Doe

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Struggle, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  Walter Bagehot

  Military, War, Impact

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.75

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• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  Kate Adie

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

  Tori Amos

  Religious, Religion, Way

  Song: Suede, 1999

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• For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Trying, Stubborn

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• Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

  Vinod Khosla

  Jobs, Apples, Entrepreneur

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• My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

  Donal Logue

  Mom, Tennis, Young

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

  Vance Havner

  Adversity, Medicine, People

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Thankfulness, Lord

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

  George Otis

  Far Away, Ifs

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

  George Otis

  Fighting, People, Fairs

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Book, Eye

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