Quotes About Sending

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

We didn't want to waste time by sending our volunteers to Republicans; we sent them to the undecided.

God is a sending God. Just as he sent his Son and his Holy Spirit to the world, he is sending his people into the world.

Communication is not about the sender or receiver; it's about the sending. And that's done with language.

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

The sending of the Holy Spirit depends on the Lord's departure.

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?

Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away. – Acts 13:3

If Southern Baptist churches sent just 1 percent of their members to reach the nations and peoples of the world, instead of five thousand there would be 160,000 missionaries (according to our reported membership of sixteen million in 2009). The support should not be a problem—not financially, logistically, or in human resources. Could not 99 percent of the church adequately support the 1 percent sent to the nations to fulfill the mission of God?

When Jesus said, "As the Father has sent Me, I also send you" (John 20:21), the mandate was not for a select group of cross-cultural missionaries. It was a commission to you, to me, and to our churches. We have a sender (Jesus), a message (the gospel), and a people to whom we are sent (those in our culture). It is worth the effort to go beyond personal preferences and attractional methods to proclaim the gospel in our church services and outside the walls.

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

Now for God's sake, will you two start behaving like a princess and a Courier?" Halt told them. "If you don't, I'll have to think about sending Will home.' 'Me?' Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. 'What's it got to do with me?' 'It's all your fault!' Halt shouted irrationally.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Michael Green cuts through church cant: "God's church exists not for itself but for the benefit of those who are not yet members. . . . [and] the church which lives for itself will be sure to die by itself." The church is not a religious club and it does not have a secular mission. Instead, it is a worshipping and sending community.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves." (Luke 10:1–3)

To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.

Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.

If forgiveness is nothing more than a rearranging of our feelings, we have no defense against this. But if forgiveness is a formal process of sending sins and wrongs away from us and placing them upon Jesus on the cross, we have a barrier between us and the darkness that tries to come back in.

It's as if we think of ideas as things, knowing as having, communicating as sending, and language as the package. 52 This is sometimes called the conduit metaphor, and it can be seen in dozens of expressions for thinking, saying, and teaching.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.