Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
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.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days
I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat across the table from people who were - were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.
Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.
Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.
Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.
The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
. . . even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.
To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.
Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
Missionary service is a priesthood duty.
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.