Quotes About Missions

#1. We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Stephen Covey

#2. The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don't know yet.

Gail Godwin

#3. A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Richard Le Gallienne

#4. When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. A high view of God's sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God's sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

David Platt

#6. People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.

Scott Kelly

#7. The "home base" of missions is now nothing less than the worldwide community, and

Lesslie Newbigin

#8. Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea.

Marcus Luttrell

#9. God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

David Platt

#10. The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

John Piper

#11. So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

John Piper

#12. Not all of my missions involve terrorists or the fate of the world. Some are far more simple and mundane. Like locating a teleporting cat.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

John Piper

#14. Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions,

Rick Remender

#15. Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

#16. You have to be insane before they will let you fly no more missions, but the fact that you want to fly no more missions is proof that you are not insane.

Joseph Heller

#17. If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.

Romano Prodi

#18. Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days.

Vladislav Tamarov

#19. 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

#20. Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#21. If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#22. NASA gets to name their missions after gods and stuff, so why can't I? Henceforth, rover experimental missions will be "Sirius" missions. Get it? Dogs? Well if you don't, fuck you.

Andy Weir

#23. I don't think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen.

Scott Kelly

#24. Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

John Piper

#25. For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power
worship.

Robert E. Webber

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

Charles Garfield

#27. One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one's fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

Donald Kingsbury

#28. Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Roman Romanenko

#29. Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.

Ann Dunagan

#30. She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.

Elisabeth Elliot

#31. World missions was on God's mind from the beginning.

Dave Davidson

#32. In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.

Vincent De Paul

#33. At Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

Niccolo Machiavelli

#34. The moral of the story was not to wear a red shirt. Or go on away missions when you're the only one whose name isn't on the opening credits.

John Scalzi

#35. God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission ... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

Leonard Sweet

#36. You are about to see a presentation which will explain to you how almost all of human society is being manipulated by a handful of deviant leaders who use all means to accomplish their monstrous missions.

Anonymous

#37. Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a universal mind. Let us pledge to fulfill our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the universe.

Koichi Tohei

#38. It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

J. Edwin Orr

#39. Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

Tony Hsieh

#40. A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

Carl Braaten

#41. 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

#42. If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

C.S. Lewis

#43. Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch ...

Joseph Heller

#44. This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.

Alan Stern

#45. During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

Michael Hastings

#46. I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

A.B. Simpson

#47. Great motivators are visible at the front and lead by their actions. Hiding in your office or mysteriously traveling all the time on unknown missions are sure ways to cause the focus of your team to disperse.

Martin Zwilling

#48. 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

#49. The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.

Andy Weir

#50. Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

David Bryant

#51. Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#52. Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#53. The time has come (ominous musical crescendo) for some missions!

Andy Weir

#54. Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#55. Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

K.P. Yohannan

#56. I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

Luis Gonzalez

#57. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

Shane Claiborne

#58. Fuck! Is that what Special Missions is like?

Ann Leckie

#59. The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#60. Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.

Sabaa Tahir

#61. There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

John Piper

#62. There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

#63. In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?

Dave Davidson

#64. The teenagers who had signed up to be Lookouts loved hustling in the cold, pretending they were marines on a black op. Most of them had been preparing for postapocalyptic stealth missions since they were old enough to pick up an Xbox controller. Father

Joe Hill

#65. The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

James N. Frey

#66. One of the fundamental missions of a family business is to pass the business to subsequent generations.

Janis Raye

#67. If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

William Carey

#68. All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. It's really big and cost a lot so NASA only built one.

Andy Weir

#69. None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.

Francis Chan

#70. Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.

Nick Frost

#71. The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

Ann Coulter

#72. Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.

Ezra Taft Benson

#73. 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

#74. Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation

David Shibley

#75. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.

Oswald J. Smith

#76. Despite his attempts to alter his destiny - joining the worst cohort, trying to change the camp traditions, taking the least glamorous missions, and befriending the least popular kids - he had been made praetor anyway.

Rick Riordan

#77. Plans are great, but missions are better.

Seth Godin

#78. We detect rather than invent our missions in life. I

Stephen R. Covey

#79. I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

Leroy Chiao

#80. But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

James A. Michener

#81. Paddy was just one of many wanderers on strange, lonely quests, striking out on mysterious missions, most of whom had left no traces.

Nick Hunt

#82. Let us all remember that it is not our own reputations that are at stake in the missions to which we are called. It is His. The successes and the setbacks are His. It is His rejection, His reception - not ours. These

Neil Cole

#83. Live your life as a missions trip.

Reggie McNeal

#84. My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Omar Bongo

#85. Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Mike Bickle

#86. The greatest people are the ones who have not sought greatness, but served greatly the causes, values, and missions that were much bigger than them.

Henry Cloud

#87. 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

#88. But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

Wayne White

#89. The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

John Piper

#90. Everyone on this planet have missions, when they are done he die.

Deyth Banger

#91. I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Guido Westerwelle

#92. Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

John Piper

#93. We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

Ron Kind

#94. If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

Muhammad Ali

#95. I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

Marlon James

#96. If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.

John Piper

#97. When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.

Shannon L. Alder

#98. There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#99. The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

Timothy Keller

#100. Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.