#mission

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countries #economy #emissions #environment #environmental

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #beware #brainwashed #conviction #freedom-of-speech

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight. ↗

— Criss Jami

#development #faith #fear #free #freedom

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. ↗

— C.T. Studd

#home

If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home. ↗

— David Livingstone

#home

I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. ↗

— Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

#home

The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires. ↗

— Samuel Zwemer

#inverted-homesickness #missionary #missions #home

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#come #faith #feel #find #hope

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation. ↗

— Frank Scott

#commissions #country #ever #fair #had

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. ↗

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

#economic-growth #education #indomitable-spirit #knowledge #learning