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Quotes About Mission

If our mission is to share good news, we need to be good news people. If we preach transformation, we need to show some evidence of what transformation looks like.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
the dangerous result is that theology proceeds without missional input or output, while mission proceeds without theological guidance or evaluation.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone." -Jesus Christ Mark 16:15 (NLT)
~ Christopher Long
Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam.
~ Christopher Moore
So that's what you think you're going to do? Bring God to everyone?" "Yes. After a nap." "Of course, I meant after a nap.
~ Christopher Moore
You tell soldiers what they need to hear to go to war. Bitches need a mission, not a goal.
~ Christopher Moore
The old dragon had not been enthusiastic about the mission when Eragon told him about it, but neither had he opposed it. After discussing various contingencies, Glaedr had said: Beware of the shadows, Eragon. Strange things lurk in dark places , which, Eragon thought, was hardly an encouraging statement.
~ Christopher Paolini
There is a bit of a fanatic in his eyes. He believes he is on a holy mission and has elected himself the main deity. That disturbs me even more. A prophet is more dangerous than a criminal. At least a criminal's needs are simple. A prophet requires constant stimulation. The false ones at least.
~ Christopher Pike
Then Lopis, on top of him as they slid down a muddy slope headfirst, her cheek pressed to his faceplate, almost like she was kissing him. Probably the best part of the mission.
~ Troy Denning
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
~ Umberto Eco
What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
~ Umberto Eco
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
~ Umberto Eco
Vivimos para los libros. Dulce misión en este mundo dominado por el desorden y la decadencia.
~ Umberto Eco
É verdade, disse Bêncio, sorrindo pela primeira vez com o rosto quase se iluminando. Nós vivemos para os livros. Doce missão neste mundo dominado pela desordem e pela decadência.
~ Umberto Eco
It's true," Benno said, smiling for the first time, his face growing almost radiant. "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
~ Umberto Eco
Where God has gifted us, there is a niche for us to fill. Let's be faithful in looking for it.
~ Valerie E Hess
Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
~ Victor Frankl
What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs!
~ Victor Hugo
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition." -Interview with Tasha Robinson, avclub.com February 14, 2001.
~ Kurt Busiek
Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck each other and tend to their home repairs and children while never missing their true mission. To scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.
~ Kurt Cobain
he's going there at the orders of Muhammad Nahas to meet someone.
~ Kyle Mills
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
~ Lakhdar Brahimi
You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)
~ Cassandra Clare
Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.
~ Cassandra Clare