#mission

The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save them is a teaching that opposes people. Listen to these severe words spoken by the apostle Paul about what it means to "oppose all mankind." He says that those who killed the Lord Jesus "drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved" (1 Thess. 2:14-16). This is what people do who tell us that the nations don't need to hear about Jesus in order to be saved. They oppose all mankind. Oh, how we need to let the Bible define what love does! ↗

— John Piper

#missions #love

It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#dance-of-love #follow #lead #love #marriage

Смирението не значи да си малодушен и бездеен. То не води нито до фатализъм, нито до капитулация. Точно обратното. В смирението е заложена сила – сила, извираща отвътре. Който се подчини смирено на божественото естество на живота, ще пребъде в невъзмутимо спокойствие и мир, дори когато целият широк свят е хвърлен в смут. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#love

There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility. “Even here. Perhaps, especially here. Where better to spread his love, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” “Where better to be kidnapped and sold into slavery, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” with a discernible sneer. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#missionary #war #love

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond! ↗

— Isobel Kuhn

#men

For now, it is enough to face the reality that it is possible, as individual Christians and also in our churches, to be doing well in many areas, and yet still miss what is perhaps the most urgent matter on the agenda of God in our generation, the task of reaching men and women everywhere with the knowledge of salvation in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Ross Paterson

#mission #men

If ten men are carrying a log — nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end — and you want to help, which end will you lift on? ↗

— William Borden

#men

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar. ↗

— Bob Richards

#ray-pelletier #men

In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all good men would have it, grows broader daily; it is most important that all ranks and degrees of people should understand whose hands are stretched out to separate these two great divisions of society each of whom, for its strength and happiness, and the future existence of this country, as a great and powerful nation, is dependent on the other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gini-coefficient #londonderry #men

Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today, because they have rejected patriarchal privilege and embraced their own heart's calling instead. ↗

— TammyJo Eckhart

#men #patriarchy #submission #men