Top 39 Great Missionary Quotes
#1. If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.
Matt Chandler
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I missed him like madness. I missed him so I lay in bed every night and cried for an hour. I missed him so that food had no taste and art had no beauty and life had no meaning.
Annabel Joseph
#5. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
Scilla Elworthy
#6. God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours.
Thomas S. Monson
#8. William Carey, the great Baptist missionary, said, "Attempt great things for God and expect great things from God.
Angus Buchan
#9. Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar ... take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand.
Phil Mitchell
#11. I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?
Jeffrey R. Holland
#12. It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#13. The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community.
Pope Francis
#14. Come on, don't look so serious. It's not like it's a Death Note.
Tsugumi Ohba
#15. Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey
Marmaduke William Pickthall
#16. God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
Hudson Taylor
#17. The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.
Hudson Taylor
#18. One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.
John Willis Zumwalt
#19. Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven.
Rebecca West
#20. The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.
David Kim
#21. 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
Gordon B. Hinckley
#22. God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
Elisabeth Elliot
#23. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
Ron Luce
#24. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
Pat Morley
#25. When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
Chris Cornell
#26. Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries)
J.G. Morrison
#27. Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
David Sills
#28. What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.
Ezra Taft Benson
#29. My place is no place for a lady."
Luisa cleared her throat in annoyance. Javier flashed a disarming smile at her. "Luisa, love, you are no longer a lady. You're a queen.
Karina Halle
#30. 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
Joseph Smith Jr.
#32. Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.
Andy Stanley
#33. The Great Commission is the primary task the Lord left his church. The church must always be a missionary church; the Christian must always be a world Christian.
William J. Larkin Jr.
#34. If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
Amy Carmichael
#35. God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.
James Hudson Taylor
#36. The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.
Mike Stachura
#38. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.
Stephen Return Riggs
#39. I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.
Joss Whedon