Quotes about Mission
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
- John Wesley
The religion of Christ will unite in close brotherhood all who accept its teachings. It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile men to God, and thus to one another.
- Ellen White
The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.
- Elyse Fitzpatrick
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
- Dorothy Day
Every generation has a right to hear the Gospel, the ABC's of the Gospel - the Gospel of salvation.
- Reinhard Bonnke
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- Og Mandino
We seem to have a strange idea of Christian service. We will buy books, travel miles to hear a speaker on blessings, pay large sums to hear a group singing the latest Christian songs--but we forget that we are soldiers.
- George Verwer
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
- George W. Bush
I hope you agree with me that the hope for the world is the local church, and that the heart of God's plan is found in creating a whole new society in a local church. If
- Scot McKnight
kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.
- Scot McKnight
hold it, then, as an axiom — or else I'd stop writing right now — that our calling is to follow Jesus in our context rather than to retrieve and re-create his context in our world. What
- Scot McKnight