Top 100 Quotes About The Missionary
#1. My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
Adoniram Judson
#2. 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
#3. The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.
Lesslie Newbigin
#4. No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
John Piper
#5. 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
#6. For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
Yip Harburg
#7. I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
Pope Francis
#8. The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight. I'm
James S.A. Corey
#9. Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
David Sills
#10. The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
Russell M. Nelson
#11. I was a Methodist when I was anything. What flavor are you selling? The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight.
James S.A. Corey
#12. 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
#13. You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#14. Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here.
Aline Ohanesian
#15. President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.
James E. Faust
#16. The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.
Mary Roach
#18. The secret of the missionary is ... I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
Oswald Chambers
#19. 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
#20. God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
Oswald Chambers
#21. Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
#22. The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.
Thomas Hale
#23. Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
David Livingstone
#24. The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
David Livingstone
#25. 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
#26. That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
#27. Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
A.B. Simpson
#28. Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
Jeanette Winterson
#29. 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
#30. The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.
R.A. Torrey
#31. 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
#32. Youth of the Church, the world is in need of your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. The harvest truly is great. Let there be no mistake about it; the missionary opportunity of a lifetime is yours.
Thomas S. Monson
#33. The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
Hudson Taylor
#34. My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.
Tori Amos
#35. It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.
Henry Drummond
#36. 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
#37. A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
Kevin Baggett
#38. Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#39. Men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky
Matthew Fox
#40. Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
Janet Evanovich
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
Oswald Chambers
#45. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
Ron Luce
#46. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
Robert Pierce
#47. 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
#48. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
Pat Morley
#49. Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.
Gary Rohrmayer
#50. 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
#51. Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
John Piper
#52. The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
A.B. Simpson
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
Wilfred Grenfell
#65. Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.
Andy Stanley
#67. 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.
#68. 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
#69. I will venture to go ... but remember that you must hold the ropes.
William Carey
#70. 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
#71. Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
H. Burke Peterson
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
Darrin Patrick
#76. 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
#77. Anywhere, provided it be forward
farther still farther into the night.
David Livingstone
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.
Mike Stachura
#82. Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ...
Joseph Smith Jr.
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.
Oswald J. Smith
#88. 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
#89. To be a missionary you don't have to cross the sea, you just have to see the cross.
Mark Cahill
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
Henry R. Luce
#98. 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
#100. 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
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