Missionary Quotes

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

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

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

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

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Far away is far away only if you don't go there.

Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.

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

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

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

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

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

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

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.

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

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

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

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.

It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

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).

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

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

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

It's better to obey God rather than men.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

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

There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

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

He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

The Son of God had missionary supporters

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.