Definition of Missionary

Missionary

One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.

Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

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Missionary Quotations

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

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
Deborah Cox

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
Kevin Smith

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Kate Adie

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.
Richard G. Scott

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
Roland Allen

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
William Shirley

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
Peter Akinola

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
Jeff Flake

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
Craig Claiborne

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Missionary Translations

missionary in Afrikaans is sendeling
missionary in Dutch is missionaris, zendeling
missionary in French is missionnaire
missionary in German is Missionar
missionary in Spanish is misionero

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