#mission

As Christians, if sin were the reason for our afflictions, then we should all be in ICU" ~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#sins #sins-of-omission #r-alan-woods

We sometimes fail to realise that when we pray to Allah we are in fact performing a great act of ibadah (worship). On the surface it might seem as if we are asking out of self-interest, but we are really proving the sincerity of our belief in the tauhid (Oneness) of Allah and our submission to the True God. Thus the Prophet pbuh said: "Supplication is itself the worship." (Reported by Abu Daud and al-Tirmizi, sahih.) If a servant prays the whole night to Allah, he therefore performs a great ibadah all night long. ↗

— Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

#spirituality #submission #self-belief

It’s better to obey God rather than men. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#men

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. ↗

— Hudson Taylor

#men

The mission sat in a converted store front on the corner of a medium-busy street. There was a small crowd gathered in front - no real surprise, since they gave out food and clothing, all all you had to do was spend a few moments of your life listening to the good reverend explain why you were going to Hell. It seemed like a pretty good bargain, even to me, but I wasn't hungry. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#christianity #homeless #mission #business

If money could motivate the merchants of England to cross death-defying oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of the loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate the missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel? ↗

— Alexander Strauch

#love #missionaries #death

TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life’s mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #life-mission

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#difficult #first #front #getting #given

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be. ↗

— Huston Smith

#granted #grew #i #missionaries #taking

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#complicated thing #each #earth #explain #himself