Missionary Quotes - Page 26

• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  Walter Bagehot

  Military, War, Impact

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.75

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• Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

  Francis Xavier

  Giving Up, Ambition, Christian Inspirational

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• Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Christ, Thousand

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• No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

  David Penman

  Encouragement, People, Church

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• From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Years, Bears, Crosses

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• In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Differences, Preparation

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• Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

  Mike Rowe

  Wise, Important, Doe

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Struggle, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!

  Pope Francis

  Enthusiasm

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.27, BookBaby

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• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  Kate Adie

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

  Tori Amos

  Religious, Religion, Way

  Song: Suede, 1999

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• For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

  Jeff Flake

  Thinking, Trying, Stubborn

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• Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

  Vinod Khosla

  Jobs, Apples, Entrepreneur

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• My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

  Donal Logue

  Mom, Tennis, Young

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

  Vance Havner

  Adversity, Medicine, People

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• One of the great compliments paid the Savior was that he taught as one having authority. The missionary who knows scripture and can quote it speaks with the voice of authority...May I suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project to memorize one scripture a week pertinent to this work. At the conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Night, Years

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• An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Religion, Atheism

  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)

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• A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Argument, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.7, Editora Dracaena

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• Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

  Sterling W Sill

  Names, Achievement, World

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• Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

  A. B. Simpson

  Home, Can Do, Bounds

  A.B. Simpson (2010). “The Christ of the Forty Days: Experiencing the Risen, Triumphant Christ”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Ambition, Pride, Organization

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• The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

  Nelson Mandela

  Achievement, Church, World

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Destiny, Decision

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• We have got to be watchful, for I tell you God has sent us here to test us and to prove us. We were true in keeping our first estate. The people that are here today stood loyally by God and by Jesus and they did not flinch. If you had flinched, then you would not be here with the Priesthood upon you. The evidence that you were loyal, that you were true, and that you did not waver is to be found in the fact that you have received the Gospel-and the everlasting Priesthood.

  George Q. Cannon

  Jesus, People, Loyal

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• When you choose to follow Christ,
  you choose to be changed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Christ, Changed, You Choose

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

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