Quotes About Mission

Make no mistake about it: We are indeed out to advance our faith and destroy all others. Christ commands us to do this, so that we must call into question the Christian commitment of anyone who denies or disobeys such a formulation of our mission.

Make a Mission, take your mission like challenge

I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to Find people but to save them.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

He who wants to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come in conflict with it.

The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

the New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us from becoming the church God had in mind?

Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.

Others of us, rightly concerned about issues in a modern "culture war," neglect the church's mission as a haven of grace in this world of ungrace.

Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: "God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — ?his people. There is no Plan B.

A similar cycle has recurred throughout church history. Christians present an attractive counterculture until they become the dominant culture. Then they divert from their mission, join the power structure, and in the process turn society against them. Rejected, they retreat into a minority subculture, only to start the cycle all over again.

He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large.

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.