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“You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.”

Book:When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

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“Mrs Davidson was saying she didn't know how they'd have got through the journey if it hadn't been for us," said Mrs Macphail, as she neatly brushed out her transformation. "She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know." "I shouldn't have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills." "It's not frills. I quite understand what she means. It wouldn't have been very nice for the Davidsons to have to mix with all that rough lot in the smoking-room." "The founder of their religion wasn't so exclusive," said Dr Macphail with a chuckle. William Somersert Maugham, "Rain”

Rain Short Story Missionary Work Maugham South Seas

Author:William Somersert Maugham

“On the other hand, we are not given a Book of Mormon for some time, just when Christopher had begun to feel insulted. It was analogous, he said, to going to a gay bar and not being checked out. He wasn't gay, but wasn't it nice to be asked?”

Missionary Work

Book:The Days Are Gods

Source: The Days Are Gods

“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.”

Theology Christian Living Missionary Work Sufferings Suffering Jesus

Book:Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton

Source: Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton

“After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try?”

Religion Spirituality Missionary Work

Book:Leviathan Wakes

Source: Leviathan Wakes

“When we live in an environment filled with honest love, we are much freer to give more of our effort to other aspects of the work [of God]. I doubt there can be happy life without love, and the more honest the love, the more fulfilling the life. I wonder if this isn't the basis of the Savior's statement, "I am come that they might have life, that they might have it more abundantly." Isn't He the embodiment of love, and isn't it His greatest desire that all of us be full of love for one another?”

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Book:Fire of Faith: The Memoirs of John H. Groberg

Source: Fire of Faith: The Memoirs of John H. Groberg

“No one who has looked to the summit from the valley and feared has reached the top!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you aim at the summits, you are an ordinary person; if you aim beyond the summits you are an extraordinary person!”