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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

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men ... This is what God expects of us — John Taylor

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

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money. — David Kim

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 do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working. — Jim Elliot

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 will venture to go ... but remember that you must hold the ropes. — William Carey

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

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood. — James McAvoy

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands. — Hugh Nibley

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

The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else. — F. E. Marsh

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

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small. — Pat Morley

Plan for the worst, expect the best. — David Gemmell

Anywhere, provided it be forward
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

I look like a gay Mormon missionary," he lamented in the mirror. "Pardon me, have you heard the word of the Lord? It's fabulous!" He — T.J. Klune

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

I know all about the missionary position, Angel. In fact, I believe I was trying to acquaint you with it earlier when you cock blocked me. — Katie Ashley

The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end. — L. Tom Perry

My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa ... — Alexander Murdoch Mackay

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world. — Pope Francis

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

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand. — Philip Zaleski

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

You're wasted on the occasional bout of missionary sex with a disinterested man. — Kitty French

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move. — Pope Paul VI

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. — Charles Studd

Walk away from your own preoccupations ... and see the perishing multitudes. — K.P. Yohannan

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

In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer. — Dick Eastman

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 woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives - blindly. — Sherry Argov

The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity. — Mike Stachura

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas
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

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

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

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

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

We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity. — Paul Washer

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

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am. — Jim Croce

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

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers. — Nina Gunter

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

The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible. — Ralph Winter

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal! — Jonathan Goforth