Quotes About Mission

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

if getting a good night's rest is sufficiently important for high priority missions in outer space, it should also be important for all of us here on Earth.

A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.

When we get to Macindaw,' he said, 'let's just send him up the ladder with those planks. He'll clear the defenders out in no time.

And one there was, a dreamer born, Who, with a mission to fulfill, Had left the Muses' haunts to turn The crank of an opinion-mill, Making his rustic reed of song A weapon in the war with wrong,... "A Tent on the Beach

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.

Biblical Context Matthew begins to deal with Jesus' mission in Matthew 14—who Jesus came to and who may come to him. The feeding of the five thousand begins this section and shows that the people came to Jesus with needs, which he met. This contrasts with the end of the section (chapter 19) where the rich young man came with wants and was turned away.

Kanan thumped his chest. "I'm a man with a mission." "You're an oaf with a delusion.

The foregoing observations...suggest that influences other than purely exegetical ones can affect the church's outlook....Church history also suggests that eschatological positions can significantly influence the church's understanding of the nature and scope of its mission to the world.

Jesus came for us, but that doesn't mean he came to please us. Jesus came for us, but he does not answer to us. Jesus came for us, but he will not subject himself to our agenda . . .

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.

En Juan 17:3, en Su oración al Padre, Jesús dice: "Y esta es la vida eterna: que te conozcan a Ti, el único Dios verdadero, y a Jesucristo, a quien has enviado".

I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

Other soldiers at this table may be wishing they were safe in their homes with their families, but Tiger knows that, right now, he's where he's supposed to be.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador

Every organization was built for a purpose. We haven't built any organization just for the sake of its mere existence.

Every area of your life is subject to enemy attack, so you must fight on your knees before you can stand on your mission field.

Let us go hurtling around the galaxy thwarting evil, shall we?

1 through the middle of chapter 4, deals with the conditions that led to his incarnation, his birth and very early life. The second part, the remainder of chapter 4 through chapter 8, details the lost years—ages thirteen to twenty-nine, when Issa was studying in India and the Himalayas. And the final part, chapters 9 through 14, covers the unfoldment of events during his mission in Palestine.

New York group that took as its mission "the introduction and acclimatization of such foreign varieties of the animal and vegetable kingdom as might prove useful or interesting" imported European starlings to the U.S. (The head of the group supposedly wanted to bring to America all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare.)

Wilson's mission now was not saving Russian democracy; it was defeating Germany, the outlaw nation, and pressing the war forward to the conclusion he desired, a great peace conference at which the sources of all the world's conflicts and wars would finally be resolved.