#mission

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

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

— you don’t understand — there are things worth dying for! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sirius-black #life

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#hurt-feelings #life-missions #life-purpose #pain #sorrow

God desires that we be like living signs of the kingdom, to provide visual aids of what life will look like one day when the kingdom is here fully. We will not bring the Kingdom or build the kingdom, but our privilege is to live out previews of “coming attractions,” revealing what this Kingdom will look like. ↗

— Tim Dearborn

#life

Make me a captive, Lord, And then I shall be free; Force me to render up my sword, And I shall conqueror be. I sink in life's alarms When by myself I stand; Imprison me within Thine arms, And strong shall be my hand ↗

— George Matheson

#submission #life

A commitment doesn’t care about your feelings. To follow your path you give up what you want and follow what you need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#commitment #journeys #life-missions #purpose #life

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today. ↗

— John Piper

#life