Missions Quotes - Page 7

• I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

  George H. Miley

  Years, Ideas, People

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• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

  Maya Angelou

  Passion, Will To Survive, Aim Of Life

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Degrees

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• For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

  Edward Snowden

  Giving, Trying, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

  Charles Garfield

  Determination, Ability, Performers

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• Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

  Charles Garfield

  Trying, Would Be, Way

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• I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Long, Like You

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• If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Missionary, Christianity

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• Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, World, Christ

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• Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

  William Booth

  Soul, Missionary, Motto

  Salvation Army, William Booth (1907). “Selected Papers on the Social Work of the Salvation Army”

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• God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

  David Livingstone

  Son, Missionary, Motto

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• To know God and to make Him known.

  Loren Cunningham

  Missionary, Motto, Knowing God

  Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.157, YWAM Publishing

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• We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

  John Stott

  Light, Religion, World

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• As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Prayer, Long

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.364, Cambridge University Press

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• While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

  William Booth

  Fighting, Dark, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

  Vance Havner

  Soul, Missionary, Christ

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• God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

  Hudson Taylor

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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• God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

  John Piper

  Names, Missionary, Ministry

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

  William Booth

  Girl, Children, Fighting

  "Booth the Beloved". Book by J. Evan Smith (pp. 122-124), 1949.

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• Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian, Biblical, Religion

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• The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

  Stephen Covey

  Philosophy, Character, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Work, Inspiration, Calling

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• I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• I love to live on the brink of eternity.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Christianity, Eternity

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.49

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• It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

  David Bryant

  Church, Missionary, Causes

  David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

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