Missions Quotes - Page 32

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Bridges, Crosses

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• Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

  Kevin Kelly

  Children, Technology, Self

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.215, Penguin

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• Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

  John Stott

  Christian, Responsibility, Impossible

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.93, InterVarsity Press

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• Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.” I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.

  Rob Thurman

  Elderly, Hands, Broken

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.

  Hilary McKay

  Morning, Wall, Stupid

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• ...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

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• There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.

  Michael Connelly

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Michael Connelly (2009). “Lost Light”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Who I Am, Imagine

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• Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.) The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)

  Ally Carter

  Scary, Location, October

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• Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Way, Purpose

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• She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn

  Amanda Hocking

  Suicide, Princess

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• We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

  Umberto Eco

  Sweet, Book, Decay

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• That’s really sweet.” He grinned and reached for a plate. “Then I believe my mission is accomplished.” Laughing softly so I didn’t wake up Cage, I walked over and took the plate he was offering to me.

  Abbi Glines

  Sweet, Believe, Offering

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her?

  Kristen Britain

  Bears, Losing, Chance

  Kristen Britain (2011). “Blackveil: Book Four of Green Rider”, p.314, Penguin

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• Max - you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Voice, Clouds

  "The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1)". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several decades until they're accidentally discovered by some guy on a journey to awaken his spirit at the Salinas Pueblo Missions, can I have your iMac?" I gaped at her. "You've really thought this out. "I love your iMac." "I love my iMac too, and you're not getting her." "But you'll be decomposing.

  Darynda Jones

  Journey, Guy, Desert

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• But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.

  Robin Sloan

  Learning Something New, Long, Evil

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Mess with my weed again and I’ll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission.” I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.

  Karen Chance

  Weed, Daddy, Saws

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.55, Penguin

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• Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

  Kofi Annan

  Lying, Fate, Ideas

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

  Joel Sartore

  Hard Work, Order, World

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• The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

  John Mott

  Prayer, World, Hinges

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Missionary

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

  John Boehner

  Real, Commitment, Differences

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• Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

  David A. Morse

  Safety, Justice, Motto

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