#mission

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

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. ↗

— Oswald J. Smith

#life

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#relationships #respect #submission #love

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each

Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?" Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#question #love

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. ↗

— George Eliot

#submission #nature

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set. ↗

— John Piper

#fitting-in #materialism #mind-set #missions #money

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ↗

— Molière

#sin

If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that ↗

— Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

#incarnation #incarnational #jesus-christ #missional #faith