Missionary Quotes - Page 15

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

  David Bosch

  Church, Activity

  David J. Bosch (1991). “Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission”, p.381, Orbis Books

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• The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Welfare Programs, Church, Lessons

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Suffering, Dying, Church

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• Rediscover the real meaning of the Great Commission. Beginning in our own prayer and devotional lives, we must begin to feel the compassion of the Lord for a lost and dying world. As we have already seen, the Great Commission is not something that was given to a tiny group of specially trained and educated envoys. It was given to all Christians—to the whole Church. It is something that we are all to be engaged in naturally every day.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Prayer, Real

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Country, Responsibility

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.44, Gospel For Asia Books

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Everyday, United States, Asia

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• Proclaim the Word more and argue about it less.

  William Cameron Townsend

  Arguing

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• The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Foundation, Records, World

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• It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Records, Foreigners, Unfortunate

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• We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

  Umberto Eco

  Christian, Country, Mosques

  "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• 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).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Heart, Cfs

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

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rome, Next, Initiative

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• I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Real, Hymns

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• The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, And Love, Tasks

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address to The Participants In The Fifth International Congress Of Military Ordinariates, w2.vatican.va. October 26, 2006.

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

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

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• Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Want, Orlando, Dangerous

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.49, Random House

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• Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Water, Grace

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• 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.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creativity, Diversity, Making Love

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• Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Football, Monday, Smart

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Humanity, News

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• I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Devil, Might

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• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Discipline, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.19, A&C Black

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Parent

  "Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

  Trey Parker

  Needs, Colorado

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