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Quotes About Commission

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
~ E. Stanley Jones
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.
~ Ed Stetzer
Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
~ Anonymous
It is this desire to see civil society remain a strong and united force within the U.K. that has encouraged me to chair Citizens U.K. Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life.
~ Dominic Grieve
If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.
~ Justin Peck
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
~ Wendy Davis
A commission arrived at Corinth headed by the victorious Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus.
~ Roderick Beaton
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
~ Roger Staubach
The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
~ Ron Luce
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)
~ Ronald Reagan
There's something wrong with the baby. I need you here, but not if he isn't out of commission. Go cut his head off or something." "What?" Valerie asked with disbelief. "Who do you think I am? The Queen of Hearts?" "No, if you were you'd already have cut his head off," Leigh snapped and then groaned in agony.
~ Lynsay Sands
Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Although the FBI and later the 9/11 Commission ultimately stated that the money was not intentionally being diverted to fund terrorists,9 investigators were surprised to discover how lax the safeguards at Riggs Bank were,10 especially as the bank was known to have close links to the CIA.11
~ Andrew Feinstein
Money is paid to them in Germany and the kick-back is transferred to the local military attaché and he transfers it to the princes.' He concluded: 'Not a piece of equipment would go from the US to Saudi without Bandar getting a commission.'13
~ Andrew Feinstein
It is the one who does what God commands to whom God can entrust His work, whom God can use to be a type of savior to others.
~ Andrew Murray
Missions is not just for missionaries; God's call is for all.
~ Ann Dunagan
We conclude this financial crisis was avoidable," declared, in 2011, the commission charged with investigating the 2007–2008 financial cataclysm. That event caused more people to take their own lives in the United States than the 9/11 terrorist attacks caused casualties. It triggered what would be considered a humanitarian crisis in any African or Middle Eastern country, as millions of Americans, forced out of their homes, became internally displaced people.
~ Sarah Chayes
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
~ John Bates Clark
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
~ John Calvin
The Greek is importantly different: "Jesus said to her, 'Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God
~ John Dominic Crossan
The desperation of media in promoting the vaccination and getting big commission out of it is quite visible in making covid a trending sensation through hired netizens
~ Anuj Somany
They are paid actors who can do anything for publicity, promotion, commission or gaining big position, even could pretend to be ill with virus, hospitalized and on medication.
~ Anuj Somany
example. Every effort to get the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations even to consider our denunciations was fruitless. We sent that organization detailed information about the tortures, the murders, the plans to blow us up with the explosives installed in the Circulars, but it did nothing. The prestigious Commission on Human Rights had deaf ears and blind eyes for what was happening in the Cuban political prisons.
~ Armando Valladares
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
~ Allen West