Quotes About Mission

Teresa of Avila, a sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, wrote, "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the world; yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; yours are the hands with which God is to bless people now.

Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

We live among the wealthiest people of the world (top 2 percent), a tough mission field. We are preaching a gospel that declares that it's easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the kingdom. But look on the bright side. After we preach the crowds down, we will not need such expensive buildings.

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

You were created to make God recognizable to others—to show others what God is like.

The Communists' sense of mission and intellectual superiority was far too great to allow them to be swayed by mere majority opinion. In this, they were like all other revolutionaries, for what revolutionary worth his salt has ever conceded that "the people's will" is something different from the mission he has undertaken to carry out on the people's behalf?

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

I know the drill." Max nodded and flatly replied, "Go in. Kill everybody. Get Stevie out." Charlie briefly closed her eyes, took a moment to breathe and try to relax her shoulders . When she felt she wouldn't yell, she said, "That is not the drill.

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

It is not the time for you to dream, It is the time for you to accomplish the mission!

If you have life, strength and time, it is enough to perform your sacred task.

A man without life purpose is not in any way different from a wondering goat.

God has allowed us to live in this time to do His works on earth.

Be a partaker, it's the period of the end-time harvest

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.