Missionary Quotes - Page 16

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

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Arrows, Judgment, Christianity

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• It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

  David Bryant

  Church, Causes, Christianity

  David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

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• I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

  James O. Fraser

  Christian, Teacher, Prayer

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 269), 1998.

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• While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Lying, Burden Of Proof, Darkness

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• Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

  Kevin Smith

  Years, Two, People

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2001.

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• Reverence invites Revelation

  Boyd K. Packer

  Revelations, Reverence, Invites

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• Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

  James O. Fraser

  Done, Knees, Lasting

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 52), 1998.

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• It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

  David Brainerd

  Remarkable, Rational, Apprehension

  David Brainerd (1829). “Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the American Indians”, p.480

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• In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.

  Archibald Alexander

  Son, Church, Flow

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• God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Children, Joy, Serious

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• I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age, the best of all. As we reflect on the plodding course of mankind, from the time of our first parents, we cannot help feeling grateful.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Grateful, Blessing, Long

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• It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Difficult, Know How, Knows

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• God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hands, Worry, Design

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Differences, Giving

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• A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Men, Effort, Walk By Faith

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• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Block, Pride, Zion

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• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Strong, Mistake

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• There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Prayer, Faithful, World

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• How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Good Life, Life Is, Repent

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Men, Competition

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• I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Distance, Heart, Voice

  "The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Blessing, Men

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• All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Spiritual, Humility, Progression

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• Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book, Angel, Errands

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