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May you find great value in these Missionaries quotes and sayings.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
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A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
The world has always been in an uproar,
and it always will be.
Choose Peace. Choose to live with Peace.
Choose to interact peacefully with everyone -
especially those whose instinct is not to be peaceful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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