Missionary Quotes
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
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Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.
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An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).
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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.
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One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!
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Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.
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I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
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For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
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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.
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There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.
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Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
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Home teaching is an excellent preparation for missionary service.
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Every member a missionary!
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If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.
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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.
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From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.
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The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.
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It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.
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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
