#missionary

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

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

#anything #convert #failed #haven #hundred

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ↗

— Craig Claiborne

#cooking #experimenter #good #gospel #home

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. ↗

— John Piper

#giving #mission #missionary #money #wealth

If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn’t it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death. ↗

— Dave Davidson

#death

God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him. ↗

— Hudson Taylor

#faith

It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#faith

God’s mission for the family is expanding God’s family. ↗

— Ann Dunagan

#family

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. ↗

— C.T. Studd

#home

If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home. ↗

— David Livingstone

#home