#missionary

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself. ↗

— Kyle Shewfelt

#best #i #journey #missionary #myself

If God’s love is for anybody anywhere, it’s for everybody everywhere. ↗

— Edward Lawlor

#love

There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility. “Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” “Where better to be kidnapped and sold into slavery, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” with a discernible sneer. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#missionary #war #love

I ask not for riches or glory, not even the glory of Heaven - that belongs by right to my brothers the Angels and Saints, and my own glory shall be the radiance that streams from the queenly brow of my Mother, the Church. Nay, I ask for Love. To love Thee, Jesus, is now my only desire. Great deeds are not for me; I cannot preach the Gospel or shed my blood. No matter! My brothers work in my stead, and I, a little child, stay close to the throne, and love Thee for all who are in the strife. But how shall I show my love, since love proves itself by deeds? Well! The little child will strew flowers...she will embrace the Divine Throne with their fragrance, she will sing Love's Canticle in silvery tones. Yes, my Beloved, it is thus my short life shall be spent in Thy sight. The only way I have of proving my love is to strew flowers before Thee - that is to say, I will let no tiny sacrifice pass, no look, no word. I wish to profit by the smallest actions, and to do them for Love. I wish to suffer for Love's sake, and for Love's sake even to rejoice: thus shall I strew flowers. ↗

— St. Therese of Liseiux

#christianity #god #inspirational #missionary #saints

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

You see Jesus wrecked my life ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#christianity #faith #jesus #missionary #faith

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together. ↗

— Arthur T. Pierson

#life

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission. ↗

— Martin Robinson

#clergy #laity #leadership #missionary #faith

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#growing up #i #missionary #school #up