Best 248 quotes in «missionary quotes» category

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

May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

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.

Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God.

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

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

No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

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

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

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.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

Reverence invites Revelation

The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.

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

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

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

The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

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

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

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

The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

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

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

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

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.

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

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

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the homelands is felt within a decade in the foreign mission-fields, and the records of missionary enterprises and the pages of missionary biography following I860 are full of clearest evidence of the stimulating effect of the Revival throughout the world.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.