#mission

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

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#angry #black #could #fire #i

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. ↗

— George W. Bush

#defend #never #our #our people #people

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#behind #discussion #find #framework #kind

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#care #diagnosis #doctor #end-of-life #less

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aptly #clear #commission #demonstrates #intelligence

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? ↗

— Linda Tripp

#crime #expectation #privacy #where

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger. ↗

— Gray Davis

#energy #federal #pull #regulatory #trigger