Best 238 quotes in «missions quotes» category

Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done.

The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.

The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us—poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction—where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.

We are called to proclaim His great Salvation and rescue the captives…. But we are busy spending 33 billion a year in diet products for ourselves or for our over weight cats. We are busy redecorating our temporal housing, We are spending every evening for our own pleasure, and every spare dollar for our won retirement. And somehow the unreached in their life and death eternal struggle slip our minds and concern… we never get around to being serious about Jesus and his command to take the good news to them.

They [the church] wanted us to give food out to malnourished mothers and children, but they didn't want us to question why we were malnourished to begin with. They wanted us to grow vegetables on the tiny plots around our houses, but they didn't want us to question why we didn't have enough land to feed ourselves. [p. 16]

This emphasis is directed primarily at the here and now, as Christ-embodying communities of active love in the midst of the world. All of creation is caught up in the restorative work. The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us—poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction—where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.

The reason many fail to joyfully proclaim Jesus Christ is because deep down they fail to joyfully adore Him

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of working in poor communities involves discovering and appreciating what God has been doing there for a LONG time.

We shouldn't ignore being missional for the sake of being confessional and we shouldn't ignore being confessional for the sake of being missional.

What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves.

All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Every Christian a missionary; every non-Christian a mission-field.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.