If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.
The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life. '
God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission. . . Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.
The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.
I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth. " The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.
If you are called as a missionary—a “sent-out one”—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God’s love—a love that never dies—through you.
True Christianity is love in action. There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for your fellow men. This is the spirit of missionary work
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.
I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.
All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.