Quotes About Mission

Many of these ex-Communists came to agree with the British editor of The God That Failed that "no one who has not wrestled with Communism as a philosophy and Communists as political opponents can really understand the value of Western democracy. The Devil once lived in Heaven, and those who have not met him are unlikely to recognize an angel when they see one."98 This self-image helps to explain the sense of mission and self-righteousness exhibited by so many ex-Communists.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

If you make meaning, you'll probably also make money.

God worked in mysterious ways; Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was perfectly suited to his task. "Taking him for all in all, measuring the tremendous magnitude of the work before him, considering the necessary means to ends, and surveying the end from the beginning, infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.

In the mountains one involuntarily hears the query: Where shall I send you? And the answer, Send me to serve the beautiful and good!

When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.

A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.

Yeah, definitely on a mission now to compete to try to be winning these tournaments I'm playing.

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

Enoch understood who he was and that he had a mission to perform. As we come to understand the same thing, we will feel greater purpose and more confidence living as women of God in a world that doesn't celebrate women of God. We will cheer each other on rather than compete with each other, because we will be looking for validation from the Lord rather than from the world. And we will be willing to stand for truth, even when that means standing alone.

the sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose. Mission: A mission is an action that leads a person to a purpose through a philosophy.

To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness