Browsing Quotes With Tag: missionaries (58)
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With concerted effort, with recognition of the duty that falls upon each of us,… and with sincere prayer to the Lord for help, we could double that number [of baptisms].
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make your mission yours.
Speaker: Sora HillPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you could teach with power and authority… teach your investigators to be baptized for the remission of sins, and I promise you that your baptisms will double or triple.
…I ask you to teach the Atonement. Teach repentance. Teach that we’re in big trouble, and there’s only one way out.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We want [our investigators] to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ – as the first principle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You are now doing the most important thing in this world – namely, participation in the salvation of a human soul. By definition, there is nothing greater.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you work, work! When you study, study! When you pray, pray! Take it up a notch! Be bigger, better, older, bolder than you’ve ever been.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best missions have very few rules; but we’re deadly serious about the ones we have.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot guarantee heroic results but every single elder and sister can pledge heroic effort.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every good thing that’s happened to me… has come because of my mission. So forgive me if I come to your mission , and I don’t think you’re working, and go ballistic!... I’m not neutral… it means everything to me.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is a work… but it is also a wonder. And it is wonderful. And you are at the heart of that wonder.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We’re not here to argue… we are here to declare.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you learn to rely on the Lord while you are missionaries, it will be an aid and a comfort to you for the rest of your lives.
Speaker: Stephen B. OvesonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first vision is the very foundation of this church, and it is my conviction that each member of this church performs his duty in direct ratio to his personal testimony and faith in the first vision.
How well do you believe?... No man, having heard the Joseph Smith testimony can , in good conscience, remain on neutral ground.Speaker: Robert L. SimpsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perhaps the perfect pattern in presenting faith-promoting stories is to teach what is found in the scriptures and then to put a seal of living reality upon it by telling a similar… thing that has happened in our dispensation and to our people and – most ideally – to us as individuals.
Speaker: Bruce R. McConkiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only reason we teach people is to invite the Spirit to motivate these people to accept these difficult commitments… it is the commitments that bring them to Jesus Christ.
Speaker: Fratele ChristiansenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is so much difference between teaching the missionaries what they are to do as concentrating on what they are to be. The first will make a salesman of them. The second will create a saint.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We judge a missionary’s success by the attributes of Christ that reflect on that missionary’s grandchildren.
Speaker: James G. AndrusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In missionary work, you cannot guarantee success; you can only deserve it.
Speaker: David R. StonePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The message of [the Book of Mormon] is that Christ does not fail us! That’s the message that we bring to the world.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To share truth in difficult circumstances treasures it up all the more.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!