Quotes About Mary Slessor

#1. Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

Mary Slessor

#2. Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way

Mary Slessor

#3. Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

Mary Slessor

#4. Our job now, those of us simply observing today, shocked by this awful news, our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another, and to meet one another in our questions.

Jamie Tworkowski

#5. I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

Jean O'Leary

#6. A new creation may look simple and you may say that anyone could have done it, but the fact is that you did not make it first.

Ingrid Holm-Garibay

#7. Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

Mary Slessor

#8. I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.

Penn Jillette

#9. I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

Joyce Rachelle

#10. Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

Mary Slessor

#11. Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Janine Benyus

#12. Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

Mary Slessor

#13. It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.

Mary Slessor

#14. Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

Mary Slessor

#15. I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

Matthew Carter

#16. If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you

Mary Slessor

#17. Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.

Larenz Tate

#18. The secret of all failure is disobedience.

Mary Slessor

#19. I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#20. When you think of the woman's power, you forget the power of the woman's God. I shall go on.

Mary Slessor

#21. said slowly, "May I ask you a question, dear?

Louisa May Alcott

#22. What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?

Mary Slessor

#23. Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

Mary Slessor