Quotes About Mission

her mission provides her a sense of purpose and energy, traits that have helped her avoid becoming a cynical academic and instead embrace her work with enthusiasm. Her mission is the foundation on which she builds love for what she does, and therefore it's a career strategy we need to better understand.

For a mission-driven project to succeed, it should be remarkable in two different ways. First, it must compel people who encounter it to remark about it to others. Second, it must be launched in a venue that supports such remarking.

In which I argue that a mission chosen before you have relevant career capital is not likely to be sustainable. Mission

If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, "follow you passion" can be bad advice. It's more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great. The traits of control and mission are two good places to start.

Lawyers like that, as I've told you, generally think they have nothing to learn from Jesus Christ himself when it comes to being saviors with a mission. Annoying them is like falling off of a log, really.

Jesus' Great Commission can just as well be translated: Since you are going into all the world anyway, why not take the gospel with you? (Matthew 28:19). GOD

Vision is seeing down the road ahead, the road called "what God has given me to do." Image is how you want the world to see you.

CHRIST KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SERVE, EVEN IF DOING SO INTERRUPTED HIS PERSONAL AGENDA.

You can't just fly into the Great Coat, shoot your way into Bluewater, and take Kai and his father,' I told him. 'Why not?' 'Cause you can't. They'll killl you, for one thing.' Ulysses scratched his beard. 'Hmm. Need a better plan.

To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.

Let us weep," Rondon would tell them, "for I loved this man who has perished for my sake. But I command you to do as he did. Never shoot." Rondon believed that his mission in protecting and pacifying the Indians was larger than his own life, larger than any of their lives. He would rather die than surrender his ideals, and he obliged his men to follow suit.

Maxine remembers what it felt like to be the patient advocate for her dad, doing whatever it took to get him through the healthcare system. Now, she recommits herself to doing whatever it takes to get her teams through the company bureaucracies—the Data Hub team's sense of mission and urgency deserve no less. Relentless optimism, she reminds herself.

Space—the final frontier… These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Thanks, but no thanks, Mr. President. I feel the mission will only be successful if I go alone. It's not as if I don't appreciate any help I can get. It's just...something in the back of my mind is telling me not to take anyone with me, something I can't quite explain. Must be another one of my weird hunches, I guess.

You may take it as you wish, Irene said. But I am not giving you my mission, and I am not giving you my student, and if I were the sort of person who kept pet rats, I would not give you my rat. Clear?

Now she just had to explain everything—well, most things—to the men, and then be off.

Nothing went boom or splat. Irene was still alive and moving freely. She decided to call her mission a total success so far.

Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.

However, in view of the verb used, it appears that the realm of death is the aggressor, attacking the church 49 The meaning then would be that when men and women have been brought into the salvation of the Kingdom of God through the mission of the church, the gates of death will be unable to prevail in their effort to swallow them up.

The result, in Mark's Gospel, is a balanced account of Jesus' mission that in its turn forms the basis for a realistic assessment of what it means to be Jesus' disciple. It is a theology in which rejection and triumph, humiliation and glory, meet in the new scale of values of the Kingdom of God.

The church is but the result of the coming of God's Kingdom into the world by the mission of Jesus Christ.

Here we find an extension of the theology of discipleship, that it will be the mission of the church to witness to the gospel of the Kingdom in the world. Israel is no longer the witness to God's Kingdom; the church has taken her place. Therefore K. E. Skydsgaard has said that the history of the Kingdom of God has become the history of Christian missions.

The "things that are above" represent the realm of God that has already invaded human history in the person and mission of Jesus and brought to human beings43 the new realm of life.

The kerygma of Paul is essentially the same as that of Jesus, namely, that in the person and mission of Jesus God has visited human beings to bring them the messianic salvation.