Top 1200 Missionary Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

One of the great compliments paid the Savior was that he taught as one having authority. The missionary who knows scripture and can quote it speaks with the voice of authority...May I suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project to memorize one scripture a week pertinent to this work. At the conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

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.

On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.

The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.

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.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".

As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

How we act and dress reflects how we regard where we are and who we are. Let me demonstrate. One of the natural occurrences in missionary work is the change in new converts, especially little boys, young men, and fathers. When they go to Church meetings, they want to look like the missionaries. Now, that tells us a lot about the importance of looking like a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

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.

It is the power of words and books - explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals - that is the greatest weapon in the missionary's arsenal.

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 come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

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.

My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.

What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.

For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.