Missionary Quotes

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

Every member ... a missionary!

Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

I've always been a missionary and what people don't know is that I've always taken some strategic and eyebrow-raising steps.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

We are all missionary disciples

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

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

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

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

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

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

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.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

The most effective missionsries always act out of love

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

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!

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

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work