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Quotes About Missions

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
~ Ellen Stofan
Companies are confusing emotion-driven marketing campaigns which still focus on the products and services, with authentic missions which inspire people with a higher purpose beyond the core offering.
~ Simon Robinson
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.
~ John Piper
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
~ John Piper
Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. With
~ John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.
~ John Piper
When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions.8
~ John Piper
If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.
~ John Piper
The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.
~ John Piper
Jesus' primary concern—the very first petition of the prayer he teaches—is that more and more people, and more and more peoples, come to hallow God's name. This is the reason the universe exists. Missions exists because this hallowing does not.
~ John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
~ John Piper
If you love the glory of God, you cannot be indifferent to missions.
~ John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
~ John Piper
Furthermore, does the federal government violate the Posse Comitatus Act when it uses these private mercenaries to conduct domestic law enforcement missions? The answer remains unsettled since it is difficult to establish whether private mercenaries are under the direction and control of the federal government, local officials
~ John W. Whitehead
Religion to Be a Part of Home Education—Home religion is fearfully neglected. Men and women show much interest in foreign missions. They give liberally to them and thus seek to satisfy their conscience, thinking that giving to the cause of God will atone for their neglect to set a right example in the home. But the home is their special field, and no excuse is accepted by God for neglecting this field.
~ Ellen G. White
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
~ Ellen Ochoa
I worked on all of the Apollo manned missions and a couple of Apollo unmanned missions.
~ Margaret H. Hamilton
For long-duration exploration missions, NASA is looking for folks with a lot of operational, hands-on experience, people who have been in field-type situations such as military deployments. In my case, I worked in the Congo and in Biosafety Level 4 labs on smallpox.
~ Kathleen Rubins
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world.
~ Romeo Dallaire
Hanley said. "We've replaced them with corrected versions." "Corrected?" Cooper asked. "Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
~ Greg Keyes
I think Dawn has done an amazing job showing that asteroids aren't just hunks of rock. They're worlds - they're places an astronaut can explore. I think the Rosetta mission also did an amazing job of that.
~ Carrie Nugent
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.
~ Joseph Heller