Top 221 Missionaries Quotes & Sayings

Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents.

You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

We need more missionaries - more worthy missionaries.

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

Tempura-style batters were originally brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century.

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

We have heard that we are all missionaries. Every member ... is or ought to be a missionary; ... as members of the Church, having pledged ourselves to the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ we become missionaries. That is part of the responsibility of every member of the Church

Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.

If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.

Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Ask the missionaries, they can help you

We need missionaries to match our message.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

Even missionaries get discouraged at times.

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

What is so attractive about Uganda for missionaries is that they have free rein. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, the parliament.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

As surely as the Lord has inspired more missionaries to serve, He is also awakening the minds and opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive His missionaries.

The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.

I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Missionaries learn to manage situations and to rely on the Lord.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

All of us now are serving and will continue to serve as lifelong missionaries. We are missionaries every day in our families, in our schools, in our places of employment, and in our communities. Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.

We are all in this together. With fellow ward members and missionaries, we plan and pray and help one another. Please keep the full-time missionaries in your thoughts and prayers. Trust them with your family and friends. The Lord trusts them and has called them to teach and bless those who seek Him.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.