{"quotes":[{"text":"A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","african-leaders","calling-people","duty","expectation","humanity","inspiring","leader","leadership-characteristics","mankind","missionary","nation","people","responsibility","services","team-spirit","volunteerism","working-hard","working-together","world-leaders"],"id":2396,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["atheism","christianity","evidence","false","god","missionary","true-religion"],"id":9936,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"},{"text":"When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.","author":"James Hudson Taylor","tags":["christianity","missionary","prayer"],"id":12989,"author_id":"James+Hudson+Taylor"},{"text":"God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.","author":"Amy Carmichael","tags":["cross","drawn","first","god","important","missionary","primary"],"id":14216,"author_id":"Amy+Carmichael"},{"text":"The gospel messages you share will be accepted more readily if your Christlike example is evident in the ongoing pattern of your posts.","author":"David A. Bednar","tags":["christ","example","gospel","missionary"],"id":16488,"author_id":"David+A.+Bednar"},{"text":"At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.","author":"Dan Simmons","tags":["conversation","missionary","priest"],"id":17693,"author_id":"Dan+Simmons"},{"text":"For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.","author":"David Livingstone","tags":["christianity","god","grace","jesus-christ","missionary","suffering","trials"],"id":58471,"author_id":"David+Livingstone"},{"text":"You see Jesus wrecked my life.","author":"Katie J. Davis","tags":["christian","christianity","faith","jesus","missionary"],"id":59784,"author_id":"Katie+J.+Davis"},{"text":"We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["calling-people","educational-philosophy","gifts","humanity-advice","humanity-and-society","individualism","inspirational","inspiring","lessons-learnt","life-and-living","missionary","motivation","music","needs","people","self-esteem","services","talent","uniqueness","value-in-a-person","volunteerism","wisdom","wise-sayings","wise-words","work"],"id":64872,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Montrose leaned forward. “Jacob, what's wrong with you? Why would you want to do this? What kind of husband . . . What kind of man are you?”“I don't know.” Jacob's voice was a whisper. “But before I pledged myself to Annie, I pledged myself to God.”“I hope you know what you're doing.” Montrose glanced back towards the kitchen. In their silence, they heard Annie's low sobs. “I hope it's worth it.","author":"Willowy Whisper","tags":["christianity","missionary","new-release"],"id":65698,"author_id":"Willowy+Whisper"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}