Missionary Quotes · Page 17

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

— Hudson Taylor

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

In the future, I would like to become a missionary. I'd like to go to countries where I have received much love…

— Choi Si-won

Something needs to change when you start losing your focus as a missionary. You need to do something to gain that focus…

— Shawn Bradley

When I retire, to be honest, my goal is to be a missionary. I plan on going around and spreading the gospel.

— Beneil Dariush

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that…

— James Gilmour

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

— John Piper

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they…

— Charles Studd

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living…

— Charles Studd

Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell…

— William Booth

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter…

— Gladys Aylward

“In fact, studies have demonstrated that the ‘success rate’ of missionary encounters that take place in the home of a friend or…

— Kate Cooper

Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— John Piper

“After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.”

— Sarah Vowell

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him…

— Frances Xavier Cabrini

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

— Michael Martin Hammer

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be…

— Amy Carmichael

Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.

— Nick Frost

We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.

— Peter Claver

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

— Anonymous

One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily,…

— David Sills

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of…

— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

— John Piper

The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in…

— Theodore M. Burton

I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and…

— Russell M. Nelson

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

— Charles Studd

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.

— Oswald J. Smith

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise…

— Herman Melville

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

— Olaf Stapledon

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

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is…

— Lance B. Wickman

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

— Diane Ladd

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

— Samuel Wilberforce

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

— Wilfred Grenfell

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

— David Bosch