Missionary Quotes - Page 16

Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit, and by magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

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

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

God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.