#mission

I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such delectable pain, she complained of it to her God. She would have been so glad if she could have been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure for her Lord's sake? ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#catholic #chapter-xvi #masochism #submission #life

The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#missions #opportunity #stewardship #wealth #money

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life. ↗

— John Astin

#answer #great #had #i #i think

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. ↗

— Kate Adie

#become #church #england #expected #i

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. ↗

— James Baker

#british #carbon #carbon dioxide #companies #dioxide

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby,' so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

#cast #experienced #front #i #information

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#cuba #get #go #man #married