Missionary Zeal Quotes

#1. If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

Carl Whitaker

#2. 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

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

Dana Goldstein

#4. 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

#5. Behold, Mr. Clavain: Chasm City. A place I have to come to know and, while not actually love, perhaps not to detest with quite the same missionary zeal as when I first arrived.

Alastair Reynolds

#6. We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

Alan Price

#7. I hate diets and I love eating.

Tracy Anderson

#8. The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.

Jeff Bezos

#9. Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?" "How much?" said Arthur. "None at all," said Mr. Prosser,

Douglas Adams

#10. In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.

Archibald Alexander

#11. If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

Isabel Allende

#12. But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.

Suzanne Collins

#13. We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.

Sanjay Rawal

#14. Be a simple kind of man.

Ronnie Van Zant

#15. You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

Morley Safer

#16. Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.

Jeff Bezos

#17. Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

John Piper