Missionary Quotes - Page 24

• I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Advice, World, Fields

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• The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.

  Dana Goldstein

  Strong, School, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Effort, Lord

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• There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

  Hudson Taylor

  Three, Requirements, Be Patient

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• God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

  John Piper

  Names, Ministry, Enthusiasm

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

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• The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

  John Piper

  Christian, Strong, People

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• I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. I have been critical of Teach For America in the past but I think one of the things about their model that's interesting is that they're constantly looking at it and whether what they're doing works and reassessing their model, and making changes. So to the extent that I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

  Dana Goldstein

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Growing Up, School, Catholic

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Impact, Effort

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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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).

  Russell M. Nelson

  Men, Earth, Enthusiasm

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• There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Father, Book

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• I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

  Diane Ladd

  People, Problem, Attorney

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• Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Etc, Sides, Affair

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• I had the constitution of a missionary.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Health, Constitution

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• God is making commerce His missionary.

  Joseph Cook

  Commerce

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Biology, with preludes on current events. Repr”

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• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Home, Cooking

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• An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Reality, World

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• I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. What came through to them was dogmatism and moralism, and it rubbed them the wrong way.

  Huston Smith

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.

  Surya Das

  Teaching, People, Open Minded

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

  John Piper

  World, Wanted

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• I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

  Patti Smith

  Religious, Real, Young

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

  Peter Kreeft

  Biblical, Catholic, Abuse

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• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Horse

  "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935".

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• Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Gay, Uganda, Guy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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