Top 89 Quotes About Missionary Work
#2. Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
Henry Kissinger
#3. The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#5. This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.
David O. McKay
#6. There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'
James E. Faust
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
Thomas S. Monson
#11. Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#12. With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch ... I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#13. The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.
Nelson Mandela
#14. 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.
Kevin Smith
#15. 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
Harold B. Lee
#16. I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
Deborah Cox
#18. 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.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#19. Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.
Isobel Miller Kuhn
#20. An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, "I will hasten my work in its time" (D&C 88:73).
Russell M. Nelson
#21. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#22. True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work
David O. McKay
#23. I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#27. 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
#28. In order to do well, missionary work has to be totally positive.
James E. Faust
#29. You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.
David A. Bednar
#30. According to the Buddhist tradition," he began, "there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask someone to follow a different faith. Yet, because there are so many different mental dispositions, one religion simply cannot serve, cannot satisfy all people.
Rodger Kamenetz
#31. Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#32. Missionary work is a priesthood duty - an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much.
Thomas S. Monson
#33. Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places - and we always will be.
David A. Bednar
#34. A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.
Adoniram Judson
#35. We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
M. Russell Ballard
#36. The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.
Richard G. Scott
#37. We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.
LeGrand Richards
#38. Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
A.B. Simpson
#39. Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
Philip Kerr
#40. I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
James Gilmour
#41. Unless he'd missed is guess, Miss Joanna Robbins possessed the soul of a missionary. How that had come to be when she'd been raised by an outlaw and his gang, Crockett couldn't fathom. Yet he sensed her passion. Respected it. He'd not belittle her dream.
Karen Witemeyer
#43. You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.
Addie Zierman
#44. God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.
M. Russell Ballard
#49. Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ...
Joseph Smith Jr.
#50. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
A.B. Simpson
#53. I want to demonstrate the love of God through my medical missionary endeavors, solely out of appreciation and not trying to work my way to heaven.
Warren Frankel
#54. In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called to pursue the work of Jesus himself, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit"
Pope Benedict XVI
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.
Isabella Thoburn
#59. My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
Charles Studd
#60. The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
Watchman Nee
#62. I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I've sat across the table from people who were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.
Mitt Romney
#63. 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
#64. Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.
Charles Studd
#65. The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#66. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
David Livingstone
#68. 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
#69. 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
#71. Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.
Gary Rohrmayer
#72. The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
Neal A. Maxwell
#73. 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
#74. I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
Jim Elliot
#76. You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.
Sherman Alexie
#77. 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.
#78. I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.
John Piper
#79. Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
David Bosch
#80. You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.
William Carey
#81. I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
James O. Fraser
#82. A visionary is someone who sees what is possible, who sees the potential. A missionary is someone who carries out that work.
Mario Chinas
#83. The secret of the missionary is ... I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
Oswald Chambers
#84. How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
Charles Studd
#85. On the other hand, we are not given a Book of Mormon for some time, just when Christopher had begun to feel insulted. It was analogous, he said, to going to a gay bar and not being checked out. He wasn't gay, but wasn't it nice to be asked?
Liz Stephens
#86. The whole church considered itself to be involved in mission and to have a missionary duty, and every believer was a witness, felt called to the work of evangelization, even so far as the supreme witness of bloody martyrdom that was always on the horizon.
Edward L. Smither
#87. In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.
Dick Eastman
#88. After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying ... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try?
James S.A. Corey
#89. Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
James Hudson Taylor
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