Missionary Quotes - Page 7

If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

We have got to be watchful, for I tell you God has sent us here to test us and to prove us. We were true in keeping our first estate. The people that are here today stood loyally by God and by Jesus and they did not flinch. If you had flinched, then you would not be here with the Priesthood upon you. The evidence that you were loyal, that you were true, and that you did not waver is to be found in the fact that you have received the Gospel-and the everlasting Priesthood.

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

Untold millions are still untold.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

I want to be where there are out and out pagans.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

If you are called as a missionary—a “sent-out one”—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God’s love—a love that never dies—through you.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

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.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.