Top 42 Quotes About Missionary Life
#3. God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
Oswald Chambers
#6. How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
Neal A. Maxwell
#7. To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.
Ezra Taft Benson
#8. The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Adoniram Judson
#10. I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti
#15. Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.
William J. Critchlow Jr.
#16. I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.
Oswald J. Smith
#17. Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.
Clayton Christensen
#19. Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#20. When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
David Sills
#21. I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.
James McAvoy
#22. So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#24. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
Robert C. Shannon
#26. Along that straight and true path there are other goals: missionary service, temple marriage, Church activity, scripture study, prayer, temple work. There are countless worthy goals to reach as we travel through life. Needed is our commitment to reach them.
Thomas S. Monson
#27. Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
John Piper
#30. I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.
Charles Studd
#31. We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives
John Willis Zumwalt
#32. How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.
Richard G. Scott
#33. Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
George Verwer
#35. The workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden, personal, worshipping life of the saint.
Oswald Chambers
#36. When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#37. When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
Ezra Taft Benson
#38. I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
Adoniram Judson
#39. There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.
John Piper
#40. The Jabalites ... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.
Mark Twain
#41. I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.
John Gibson Paton
#42. I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
John Piper
