Missionary Quotes - Page 21

• We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

  Billy Sunday

  God, Christian, Delight

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• I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Earth, Christ, Motto

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• Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

  Jude the Apostle

  Fire, Christianity

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• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  Faye Wattleton

  Mother, Religious, Order

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• All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

  David Brainerd

  Dying, Desire, World

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Position

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• And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of this international serpent.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Struggle, Ideas

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• When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

  Deepak Chopra

  Christian, Growing Up, School

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• It's better to obey God rather than men.

  Andrew van der Bijl

  Men, Motto, Missions

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• We must share the gospel with others. That is our responsibility-every member a missionary. That is the call of prophets of God. ...Member-missionary work is one of the great keys to the individual growth of our members. It is my conviction that member-missionary work will raise the spirituality in any ward where applied

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Responsibility, Keys, Growth

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• God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Mean, People, Doe

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• This isn't missionary work. This is missionary fun.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Fun, Missionary Work

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• And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Foundation, Christianity

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• Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth

  Howard W. Hunter

  Responsibility, People, Earth

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• Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Yesterday, Needs, World

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• And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Father, Son, Blessing

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• [Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

  H. L. Mencken

  White, House, Cannibalism

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• The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

  Cecil Roth

  Journey, Years, Community

  "A History of the Jews in England". Book by Cecil Roth, 3rd edition, p. 1, 1964.

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• The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Soul, Calling, Sometimes

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.167, SPCK

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• Plan for the worst, expect the best.

  David Gemmell

  Missions, Worst, Mission Trip

  "The Swords of Night and Day". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 19, 2004.

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• My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.

  Steve Young

  Football, Ideas, Goal

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• Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood.  As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.  Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe.  Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds.  Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Light, Civilization

  James Jackson Jarves (1855). “Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting”, p.10

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• And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.

  Ernestine Rose

  Home, College, Atheism

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• I've always been a missionary and what people don't know is that I've always taken some strategic and eyebrow-raising steps.

  LeCrae

  Taken, Eyebrows, People

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

  John Piper

  Passion, Names, People

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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