Top 1200 Missionary Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.

A president cant go to every memorial service.

As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

Provide more service than what you get paid for

While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!

I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you.

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Community service has been a great thing for me.

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

O how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused his goodness to pass before me! And how poorly have I answered the vows I made this time twelve-month, to be wholly the Lord's, to be forever devoted to his service! The Lord help me to live more to his glory for the time to come. This has been a sweet, a happy day to me; blessed be God... I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altogether devoted to Him. I wanted to wear out my life in His service, and for His glory.

The public is interested in the service it receives, not the mechanism that delivers it.

The 1970s crystallized the service mantra as we now know it.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.

The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Constituent service is about meeting our neighbors where they are.

As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result of the community's constant prayer (cf. "Evangelii Nuntiandi," 75). Moreover, for the mission to be effective, communities must be united, that is, they must be "of one heart and soul" (cf. Acts 4:32), and they must be ready to witness to the love and joy that the Holy Spirit instils in the hearts of the faithful (cf. Acts 4:32).

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good. The Lord has said, 'He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' (Matt. 10:39.) We lose our life by serving and lifting others. By so doing we experience the only true and lasting happiness. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

When I first realized that I wanted to be a stand-up comedian was when I was in the service.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky.