Quotes About Missionary

Above all, Christianity must be presented in a way which Eastern peoples could understand and appreciate.

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

I'm evangelical.

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

studied theology and was preparing to become a missionary

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Excitement may galvanize the Christian's hands into a fitful and spasmodic activity. But there will be no patient continuance in well-doing, no unwearied labour in missionary work at home or abroad, without love.

It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.

Away, ye horrid moods! Moods of one's mind! You know I hate them well. You know I'd sooner be a clapping bell To some Kamtschatcan missionary church, Than with these horrid moods be left i' the lurch.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

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

As St Boniface, he has long been regarded as the apostle of Germany,

According to Bede, on one occasion Paulinus spent more than a month at Yeavering,

Why did God use Patrick to reach the people at the very ends of the earth? Because Patrick was sufficiently humble to serve the very barbarians whom the more sophisticated churchmen of his day wanted nothing to do with—and he was sufficiently rustic to relate to them. Whether or not Patrick understood this when he was first called back to Ireland, he clearly understood that Christ would be with him, praying on his behalf and answering his own prayers. So he moved forward.

There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

Missionary thinks he's telling the truth," Tjikuu says. "But he doesn't understand the ancestors because he has forgotten his own. We should feel sorry for Missionary. People without ancestors are people without yesterday or tomorrow.

Alexander VI (1492–1503) was an astute political leader, a skillful diplomat, and a careful shepherd of the church's fiscal resources. Alexander also supported missionary work in North and South America and in the Far East and by so doing anticipated extremely important developments in the later history of Christianity. In

To be a missionary you don't have to cross the sea, you just have to see the cross.

O kind missionary, O compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians!

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.