Missionary Quotes - Page 29

• Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Joy, Soul, Darkness

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• You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Work, Heart

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

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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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• The Bible says, "Take heed, lest you fall," but this has really been the story of my life. I've traveled into other realms in order to be a light and be a missionary. Some of them were very dangerous, and I don't look at this as any different.

  LeCrae

  Fall, Light, Order

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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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• If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

  Hudson Taylor

  Faithful, Trials, Littles

  J. Hudson Taylor (2015). “A Retrospect: The Story Behind My Zeal for Missions”, p.15, Aneko Press

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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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• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". 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, Islands, Flames

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• Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.

  Winkie Pratney

  Christian, Fields, Missions

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• I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!'

  Andrew van der Bijl

  Government, Waiting, Smugglers

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• For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Strong, Long, Attraction

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• Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

  William Booth

  Heart, Fire, Humanity

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• This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.

  David O. McKay

  Struggle, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Years, Uprising

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• If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?

  Frances E. Willard

  Organization, Church, Why Not

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• I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Men, Christianity, Missions

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