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Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
You have one business on earth – to save souls.
The mission of the church is missions.
The Son of God had missionary supporters
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?
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.
If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.
Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.
We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.
The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.
There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'
What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.
The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.
The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.
When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.
Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.
The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.
Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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 pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.
An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.