It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.
If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c. 460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.
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.
It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.
There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.
The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.
Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.
Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
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.
And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.
It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.
