Top 100 Quotes About The Missionary
#1. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
Ron Luce
#2. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
Robert Pierce
#3. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.
Alex Perry
#4. At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
Dan Simmons
#5. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
Pat Morley
#7. 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
#8. Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.
Adoniram Judson
#9. Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
John Piper
#10. The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
A.B. Simpson
#11. My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football.
Steve Young
#12. He had been summoned to appear before a meeting of the Apostolic Council to defend his self-designated role as missionary to the gentiles (Paul insists he was not summoned to Jerusalem but went of his own accord because Jesus told him to).
Reza Aslan
#13. If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
G. Campbell Morgan
#14. 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
#15. If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#16. I was discovering that the cross of Christ meant more then joy and peace. It meant suffering, too- suffering that was necessary to bring a later hope.
Bruce E. Olson
#17. For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
Bing Gordon
#19. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
David Livingstone
#20. I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
#21. Taking into account the different approaches to defining the term 'missionary' we can define a missionary as a Christian believer who takes the gospel to those who have never heard it before.
Marius Olivier
#22. A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach to be effective. We must not forget that the Lord Himself provided the Book of Mormon as His chief witness. The Book of Mormon is still our most powerful missionary tool. Let us use it.
Ezra Taft Benson
#24. I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
Wilfred Grenfell
#25. The business of the missionary, and the business of the Christian Church in any situation, is to challenge the plausibility structure in the light of God's revelation of the real meaning of history.
Lesslie Newbigin
#26. Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.
Andy Stanley
#28. 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.
#29. 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
#30. I will venture to go ... but remember that you must hold the ropes.
William Carey
#31. 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
#32. Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
H. Burke Peterson
#33. It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
John R. Mott
#34. Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.
Pope Benedict XVI
#35. If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.
David Sills
#36. The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
Darrin Patrick
#37. 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
#38. Anywhere, provided it be forward
farther still farther into the night.
David Livingstone
#39. There is a missionary spirit - a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.
Carlos E. Asay
#40. If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
Hudson Taylor
#41. There is nothing in the world or the Church - except the church's disobedience - to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.
Robert Speer
#42. The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.
Mike Stachura
#43. The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
David Livingstone
#44. You know I still don't like your ... hobby."
"Didn't ask your opinion." Jake rubbed his aching ribs. "If you want mine: anyone using the missionary position twice in a row should serve time.
Cherise Sinclair
#45. That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
#46. Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ...
Joseph Smith Jr.
#47. 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
#48. Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth
Howard W. Hunter
#49. Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there.
Thomas S. Monson
#50. The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
Pope Benedict XVI
#51. 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
#52. The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.
Oswald J. Smith
#53. I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
Isobel Miller Kuhn
#54. To be a missionary you don't have to cross the sea, you just have to see the cross.
Mark Cahill
#55. Every woman deserves the simple dignity of dying in a bed with clean sheets and an electric light at hand.'
-spoken by Sara, the missionary doctor, during a moment of indignation.
Joe Niemczura
#56. Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#57. My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.
Tori Amos
#58. The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.
Frank Laubach
#59. A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#60. If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization ... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?
Frances E. Willard
#61. But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.
James Gilmour
#62. To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.
Amanda Smith
#63. That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#64. A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
Henry R. Luce
#65. I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.
James Gilmour
#66. It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.
Henry Drummond
#68. I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
William Shirley
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.
J.L. Ewen
#73. Evangelization is a process of bringing the gospel to people where they are, not where you would like them to be. When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place ...
Paul Vincent Donovan
#74. Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.
Henry B. Eyring
#75. The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
William Cameron Townsend
#76. 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
#77. He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.
Michel Faber
#78. We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.
Paul Washer
#79. The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.
Huston Smith
#80. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness!
Pope Francis
#81. 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
#82. Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.
William Carey
#83. Walk away from your own preoccupations ... and see the perishing multitudes.
K.P. Yohannan
#84. To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.
James Gilmour
#85. Esmenda Jenkins Dube the first was all about fair
and saw her house as an oasis in the middle
of corruption, saw herself as a missionary
converting stupidity into reason. She thought
that was much more useful than a miracle.
Thylias Moss
#86. Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!
Pope Francis
#87. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.
Oswald J. Smith
#88. Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation
David Shibley
#89. A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
A.B. Simpson
#92. I know all about the missionary position, Angel. In fact, I believe I was trying to acquaint you with it earlier when you cock blocked me.
Katie Ashley
#93. Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.
Nick Frost
#94. 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
#95. Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
David Bosch
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?
Dave Davidson
#99. The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.
Pope Francis
#100. Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary ... That has always been a potent combination.
Brad Stone
