“Every member a missionary!”

— David O. McKay

Conference Report, Apr. 1959, p. 122.

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President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1873–1970

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“In later years, it would become fashionable to say of the missionaries, "They came to the islands to do good, and they did right well." Others made jest of the missionary slogan, "They came to a nation in darkness; they left it in light," by pointing out: "Of course they left Hawaii lighter. They stole every goddamned thing that wasn't nailed down."”

James A. Michener book Hawaii

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“Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set, directly or circuitously, by a sovereign person or body, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is supreme.”

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“The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.”

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The Great Controversy (1864; 1911) Ch. 4 http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/gc/gc4.html, p. 70
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“There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.”

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“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

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Context: Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

“The South Indian Missionary Conference held in 1858 had left nobody in doubt as to what the missionary schools and colleges were trying to achieve. “The object of all missionary labour,” proclaimed the Conference report, “is, or should be not primarily the civilization but the evangelisation of the heathen. Schools may be regarded as converting agencies, and their value estimated by the number who are led by the instruction they receive to renounce idolatry and make an open profession of Christianity; or the principal object aimed at may be the raising up of Native helpers in the Missionary work. Each of these is a legitimate object of Missionary labour and the value of any system of education as a Missionary Agency, must be tested by its adaptedness to accomplish one or more of these objects.””

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)

“Every scientific generation, measured by its most vocal members, exaggerates the historical importance of its own members. …there is a perpetual temptation to study the latest and to neglect the past.”

Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer

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“As missionaries, we must be carriers of God’s love.”

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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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