Ray Comfort

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

New Zealander Clergyman

Jeff Bezos

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.

American Businessman

Ian Mckellen

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.

English Actor

Pierre Loti

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.

French Writer

Gordon B. Hinckley

My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.

American Clergyman

Paul Washer

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

Walter Bagehot

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

English Author

Jayne Meadows

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

American Actress

Russell M. Nelson

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

Mack Wilberg

Even missionaries get discouraged at times.

American Composer

Typically used when someone is part of an organized religion focused on spreading their faith.

Religious Context

Missionaries have been crucial in spreading religions around the world throughout history.

Historical Expansion

Understand that the term might have negative connotations in post-colonial contexts.

Cultural Sensitivity

Often indicates support for missionary activities, without direct involvement.

Supportive Role

Usually refers to organized groups or activities with a religious outreach focus.

Organizational Use

Often involves raising or providing funds for evangelical purposes.

Funding

Used metaphorically for someone zealous in promoting a cause or idea, beyond religion.

Broader Advocacy

Implies a deep personal commitment and passion for the cause.

Passionate Involvement

The person’s work involves convincing others about the importance of their cause.

Persuasive Efforts

 only relying on hunting and gathering. Now, about 200 years ago missionaries came there and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world.

We Are What We Eat:...

 able to make a life for himself that was very different from the missionary life that his parents imagined for him he realized that he was very good at teaching his fellow students he was extremely poor they were extremely wealthy he liked to read books

Cradle of Gold: The...

 The forest is our home, the forest gives us life, food, nourishment, water, spiritual connection. But the arrival of roads, the arrival of colonization, the arrival of evangelical missionaries, the arrival of oil companies has destroyed our forest.

Nemonte Nenquimo: The...

 missionaries that went in the they stopped dancing and they stopped relating to their natural world in the way that they always had in the way that they would translate it and one of the big things was dance they didn't stop

Storytellers Summit Day...

 was born in Pakistan I want you know that I'm proud of it so I know so therefore you've seen you've seen you've obviously seen from from another side yeah I mean we were talking about you know my father was a missionary in

A message of peace, hope...

 as well as continued trade along the Volga route, the relationship between the two civilizations deepened. Byzantine missionaries created an alphabet for Slavic languages based on a modified Greek script

Where did Russia come...

 my first visitation that one was with one great missionary we travel to an island there was a small medical clinic and at the end of the day he said did you see how people are suffering here

Bringing Life-Changing...

 the missionaries come to this village to my village and they asked about education and everyone said what is education means you know and the missionaries have to explain them

Lale Labuko: Rescuing...

 These are cane toads in Australia. This is roadkill. Please note that this is necrophilia. It's the position. The missionary position is very rare in the animal kingdom.

Kees Moeliker: How a...

 cannonball British and American missionaries used the yangtze to access the interior of the country

Missionary