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The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
— David Livingstone
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
— John Piper
Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
— Robert Pierce
We have to work and serve humanity while we have the grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.
— James E. Faust
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
— Vance Havner
The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
— G. Campbell Morgan
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
— William Carey
Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
— David Bosch
What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.
— David Sills
I was discovering that the cross of Christ meant more then joy and peace. It meant suffering, too- suffering that was necessary to bring a later hope.
— Bruce E. Olson
The mission of the church is missions.
— Oswald J. Smith
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.
— James Gilmour
There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.
— Spencer W. Kimball
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
— William Cameron Townsend
Missionary work is a priesthood duty - an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much.
— Thomas S. Monson
Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.
— David Sills
JESUS MAY CALL YOU TO CHANGE CAREERS AND BECOME A MISSIONARY . . . BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU ANSWER HIS CALL BY DILIGENTLY DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO.
— Michael E. Wittmer
We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.
— Oswald J. Smith
Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.
— William Carey
The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.
— Frank Laubach
A visionary is someone who sees what is possible, who sees the potential. A missionary is someone who carries out that work.
— Mario Chinas
Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.
— George Whitefield
I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
— Nicolaus Zinzendorf
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
— Amy Carmichael
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.
— Janet Evanovich
The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.
— Ellen G. White
The beauty of life is sharing life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.
— Richard G. Scott
The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.
— Jackie Pullinger
It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.
— Samuel Marsden
The greatest conduct is love in action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Plan for the worst, expect the best.
— David Gemmell
Anywhere, provided it be forward
farther still farther into the night. — David Livingstone
farther still farther into the night. — David Livingstone
It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.
— Andy Stanley
God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
— Elisabeth Elliot
There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'
— James E. Faust
The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
— Darrin Patrick
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
— John Piper
My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa ...
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
God's mission for the family is expanding God's family.
— Ann Dunagan
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
— Hudson Taylor
When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
— David Sills
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.
— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
I want to demonstrate the love of God through my medical missionary endeavors, solely out of appreciation and not trying to work my way to heaven.
— Warren Frankel
If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.
— Oswald J. Smith
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
— Olaf Stapledon
Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.
— L. Tom Perry
We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.
— Wesley Duewel
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!
— Keith Green
The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas
it has never been before! — John Willis Zumwalt
it has never been before! — John Willis Zumwalt
The Lord's gracious hand is upon us.
We will begin the good work. — Lailah Gifty Akita
We will begin the good work. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.
— Andy Stanley
Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison
Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
— David Livingstone
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
— Henry David Thoreau
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
— Adoniram Judson
The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
— William Chalmers Burns
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ...
— Joseph Smith Jr.
The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis has the shape of a boomerang.
— Mary Roach
If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
— David Livingstone
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
— Thomas S. Monson
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
— Mark E. Petersen
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
— Oswald Chambers
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
— A.B. Simpson
Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!
— Jonathan Goforth