Quotes about Errand
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But there is no such thing as a small errand in the kingdom of God.
— NT Wright
God made the world only as a dressing room to dress our souls in. He sent us here on the grand errand of godliness.
— Thomas Watson
These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
— Herman Melville
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
— Woodrow Wilson
You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
— Woodrow Wilson