Missionary Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

  David Brainerd

  Return

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.171

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• The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

  William Chalmers Burns

  Heart, Longing, Missions

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• I am immortal till my work is accomplished

  David Livingstone

  Accomplished, Immortal

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• We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  God, Faith, Christian

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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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• Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

  Richard Halverson

  People, News, Messages

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• We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

  Peter Akinola

  Grief, Missionary Zeal, Age

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• Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Men, Heaven

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• Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Love Is, Bears

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• God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Training, Saint, Weapons

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Waiting, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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• Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

  Ed Stetzer

  Mean, Sound, Culture

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• We are all missionary disciples

  Pope Francis

  Disciple

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.38, BookBaby

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• Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

  Pope Francis

  Commitment, Joy, Challenges

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.34, BookBaby

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• There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life

  Brigham Young

  Men, Long, Church

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”

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• The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

  Vance Havner

  Soul, Christ, Missions

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• Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Independent, May, Calumny

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• Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Lord, Missions

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