Missionary Quotes - Page 20

• We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

  Roland Allen

  Want, Results, Method

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• What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Doctrine, Needs

  Roland Allen (2012). “Missionary Principles and Practice”, p.78, The Lutterworth Press

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Religion, Missions

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• President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

  James E. Faust

  Strong, Leader, Challenges

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• What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others. ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessing, Desire, Doe

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• Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language. The discipline to do this is learned in your early years. Establish now the daily practice of reading the scriptures ten to fifteen minutes each day. If you do so, by the time you reach the mission field, you will have read all four of the standard works. I urge you to read particularly the Book of Mormon so that you can testify of its truthfulness as the Lord has directed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Reading, Years

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• As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessed, Mean, Technology

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• The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Secret, Missionary Work

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Missionary work will never be what it might be without the help of the members. Stake presidents need to feel some responsibility and ownership of missionary work. The stake president is the one who has the presiding priesthood keys over both the members and non-members in his stake. The missionaries are his helpers.

  James E. Faust

  Responsibility, Keys, President

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• For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just
  following our darkest hours.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Adversity, Faithful

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• All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Moving, Adversity, Easier

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• Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work

  Thomas S. Monson

  Keys, Testimony, Missionary Work

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• We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service. It is hard, and at times discouraging, work. Last year our missionaries averaged sixty-seven hours a week in actual proselyting effort. Let those who contemplate missions realize that they will work as they have never worked before, and that they may expect such joy as they have not previously known.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Holiday, Vacation

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• None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Honor, Compassionate

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• Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Grace, Ordinary, Knows

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• No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

  Richard G. Scott

  Lasting, Determine, Labor

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• Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.

  William J. Critchlow, Jr.

  Father, Church, World

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• If you want to get the spirit of the gospel in your home, support the missionary program. Prepare your sons and daughters through your home evenings; through setting the proper example in your homes. Prepare to send them into the mission field. These young sons and daughters will bless your names forever if you help to make it possible through your training and your example and your willingness to sacrifice just a little, if you can call it sacrifice, to see them go into the mission field.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Home, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Opportunity, Church, Tasks

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• Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends on people first hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and coming into the faith. ... With all that there is to do along the path to eternal life, we need a lot more missionaries opening that gate and helping people through it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, People, Church

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• We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Responsibility, Men

  "This Is the Work of the Master" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 1995.

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• Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

  Charles Handy

  Leadership, Teacher, Talking

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• Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

  David Bryant

  Prayer, Blow, Winning

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• When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Thinking, Years

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Greatness, Suffering, Bears

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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