Top 35 Missionaries Quotes

Here we have the best Missionaries Quotes from famous authors such as Thomas S. Monson, Desmond Tutu, H. L. Mencken, Sam Altman, Edwin Markham. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life‘s work in a field that you enjoy.

Thomas S. Monson

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Desmond Tutu

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

H. L. Mencken

You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

Sam Altman

Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?

Edwin Markham

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Russell M. Nelson

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won‘t let them into our country.

Pearl S. Buck

The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.

Lewis Tappan

I just followed my parents‘ example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

Ian Mckellen

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.

Isabella Bird

If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost – and that explains their missionary commitment – in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.

Pope Benedict XVI

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

Emo Philips

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

Richard G Scott

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Adoniram Judson

The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can’t predict who will or won’t be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.

Clayton M. Christensen

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

W. E. B. Du Bois

A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.

David Novak

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons – increasingly women as well as men – spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

Nicholas Kristof

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

Edward Abbey

I would submit to you that our greatest need is to rediscover the gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim it. I have always said this, especially to the young missionaries that I have dealt with.

Paul Washer

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

Russell M. Nelson

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Huston Smith

You don’t need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

Trey Parker

Even missionaries get discouraged at times.

Mack Wilberg

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

Paul Washer

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

Hu Shih

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Russell M. Nelson

‘God Loves Uganda‘ is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting ‘sexual immorality‘ and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.

Roger Ross Williams

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

Russell M. Nelson

We need more missionaries – more worthy missionaries.

Russell M. Nelson

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

Russell M. Nelson

Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

Bear Grylls

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It’s not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Colin Firth

Top 35 Missionaries Quotes

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