Missionary Quotes

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

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.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.

Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

In order to do well, missionary work has to be totally positive.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

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.

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

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.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.

It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

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

Let us remember: trials are an evidence of a Father's love.

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

God is making commerce His missionary.

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.

A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.