Welcome to our collection of inspirational Missionary Quotes! If you’re seeking motivation, wisdom, and encouragement from individuals who have dedicated their lives to spreading love, faith, and compassion to different corners of the world, you’ve come to the right place. Missionaries play a crucial role in bridging cultural divides, providing humanitarian aid, and sharing their beliefs with others. Whether you’re a missionary yourself or simply looking for powerful quotes to inspire your journey, our curated selection of missionary quotes will offer you valuable insights, perspectives, and words of guidance.
Below, you’ll find a diverse range of quotes from notable missionaries and individuals who have been touched by their remarkable work. These quotes can be used in various ways – you can copy and share them, overlay them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create meaningful visuals that resonate with your own personal mission. Let these missionary quotes serve as a source of inspiration and a reminder of the impact one can make when driven by love and faith. Enjoy exploring the wisdom and insights that await you below!
Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn’t happened to you – it should. Ezra Taft Benson
Through the care of the Samaritan’s Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life – a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers. Kent Brantly
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. Jeff Bezos
I have been so incredibly blessed, and I just feel like my calling is to be a missionary and share the gospel… The Lord’s given me a platform to stand on and an audience that is listening. I feel like it’s so important to share what makes me happy. Lindsey Stirling
Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist. Russell M. Nelson
I know there is trouble in boxing. People say it is no longer good. But I cannot take responsibility. I am not a missionary for boxing. Vitali Klitschko
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him. Roland Allen
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. Adoniram Judson
I’d been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful. Chris de Burgh
If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will. Gordon B. Hinckley
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. Jeff Flake
Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest. William Lloyd Garrison
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. Carl Jung
In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference. Gordon B. Hinckley
My mom, she’s from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. Donal Logue
My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary’s morale. Gordon B. Hinckley
A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals. Adoniram Judson
Home teaching is an excellent preparation for missionary service. Joseph B. Wirthlin
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation. Russell M. Nelson
Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited. Adoniram Judson
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition. Deborah Cox
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Maya Angelou
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. Tony Campolo
Extrinsic motivations are like, ‘I wanna get rich, I wanna be famous.’… Even missionary ones like, ‘I wanna change the world with this idea.’… That’s an extrinsic motivation. And when things are hard, you’re going to be like, oh why am I doing this? Justin Kan
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world. David A. Bednar
Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience. Gordon B. Hinckley
Something needs to change when you start losing your focus as a missionary. You need to do something to gain that focus again. Shawn Bradley
I promise to be the best missionary I can – a Mormon missionary for the LGBTQ community – and to hopefully use this privilege I’ve been given to give them a voice. Dan Reynolds
In the future, I would like to become a missionary. I’d like to go to countries where I have received much love as a musician and personally return all of that love. Choi Si-won
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. Diane Ladd
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards… the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless. Josh Turner
The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches. Roger Ross Williams
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy. Luis Alberto Urrea
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. Pierre Loti
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon. Henry B. Eyring
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I’d be a missionary nurse in a religious order. Faye Wattleton
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. Walter Bagehot
The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church. Joseph B. Wirthlin
I’m no missionary, and I can’t wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am. Jim Croce
I’m on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself. Kyle Shewfelt
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language. Jonathan Krohn
I had to be clean-shaven all the time to play a Mormon missionary, so after I was done, I grew a mustache out of rebellion. It was actually very polarizing. I became attractive to a completely new group of people and also repulsive to a new group of people. The lesson: mustaches are divisive. Andrew Rannells
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage. Kate Adie
It is the power of words and books – explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals – that is the greatest weapon in the missionary’s arsenal. John C. Bogle
Religion was quite a thing in our house – we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died. Philip Kerr
The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums. Isabella Bird
Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that’s really important to me; that’s one of the first things I look at when I say, ‘does it make sense to do a deal?’ Mike Rowe
Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord’s authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places – and we always will be. David A. Bednar
When I retire, to be honest, my goal is to be a missionary. I plan on going around and spreading the gospel. Beneil Dariush
There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a church, the other would be a missionary. I didn’t particularly like snakes, so I decided I should probably be a pastor. Gary Chapman
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family – I grew up in China – and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. Huston Smith
It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years’ accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose. Adoniram Judson
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. Deepak Chopra
I don’t care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I’m going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I’m out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book. T. C. Boyle
I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work. Adoniram Judson
The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church. Richard G. Scott
For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an ‘Internet treasure’ – a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn’t live without. Bing Gordon
Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial. Vinod Khosla
I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful. Clayton M. Christensen
Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there. Thomas S. Monson
On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia. Kent Brantly
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
My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now. Benjamin Watson
The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose. Jim Elliot
I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline. Pope Francis
I realized mechanical engineering doesn’t much lend itself to missionary work. Tom Catena
For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit… We mean to appeal to their intellects… and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists. Frank Crowninshield
The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships. Adoniram Judson
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary… That has always been a potent combination. Brad Stone
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission. Ezra Taft Benson
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. Craig Claiborne
In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a ‘strange legend’ circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a ‘horn’ that could pierce anything, even rock. Adrienne Mayor
Haven’t two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can’t convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks. Kevin Smith
The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work. Gordon B. Hinckley