Missionary Quotes - Page 27

• A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Flames, Groups

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• Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Heart, Luxury

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• Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Earth, Kingdoms

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• The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

  James Stuart Stewart

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha

  Nate Saint

  Crush, Christian, Night

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• A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

  Amanda Smith

  Christian, Missions, Mission Trip

  Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.270, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.

  John Gibson Paton

  Christian, Moving, Decision

  John Gibson Paton, James Paton (1904). “The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks: Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals. Rearranged and Edited by James Paton”

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• He must increase, but I must decrease.

  John the Baptist

  Christian, Glorifying God, Increase

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• Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Believe, Judgement

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• To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Successful, Order, Gains

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit, and by magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Miracle, Important, Elements

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Miracle, Church

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• When you choose to follow Christ,
  you choose to be changed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Christ, Changed, You Choose

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Teaching, Years, Giving

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• The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

  John Mott

  Church, World, Hindrance

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

  John Mott

  Generations

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• When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

  Richard G. Scott

  Faithful, Temples

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• Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Joy, Return, Eternity

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2016

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• The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Notebook, Beach, Garden

  Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)

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• The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

  David O. McKay

  Mean, Preaching The Gospel, Contact

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• If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you.Remember, it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He
  called Moses or Samuel.

  Gladys Aylward

  Heart, Remember, Moses

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• I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

  Gladys Aylward

  Men, Choices, Done

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• Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would include blessings of children, baptisms, other priesthood ordinances, graduations, missionary farewells, homecomings, and, of course, marriages. Sharing these occasions as a family will help us build a foundation established upon a rock.

  L. Tom Perry

  Love, Children, Farewell

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• Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.

  William Booth

  Christian, College, Years

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