Quotes related to Acts 1:8
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
— Jim Elliot
On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
— Adoniram Judson
To know God and to make Him known.
— Loren Cunningham
But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
— NT Wright
Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.
— Joyce Meyer
The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.
— Pope Francis
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus, who said little about how believers should behave when we gather together and much about how we can affect the world around us.
— Philip Yancey
Seventy-five thousand people a day become Christians, two-thirds of whom live in Africa.
— Philip Yancey
Through the wise, skillful words of this author, God was telling me that effective ministry could never be measured by the size of an audience, by the number of books I'd written, by the acclaim of the crowds, but only by the lives being changed as the Spirit of God rested upon me.
— Priscilla Shirer
If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. —A. W. TOZER (1897—1963)
— RT Kendall
It is Christians who have been primarily responsible for disseminating knowledge of the Torah to so much of the world.
— Dennis Prager