#missions

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#different #diplomacy #enterprise #failure #hence

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countries #economy #emissions #environment #environmental

The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires. ↗

— Samuel Zwemer

#inverted-homesickness #missionary #missions #home

— you don’t understand — there are things worth dying for! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sirius-black #life

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christianity #destiny #gossip #haters #life-missions

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#hope #missions #resurrection #life

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

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#entirely #every #faith #gifts #mention

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect. ↗

— James Wyatt

#great #lost #many #neglect #such

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#always #because #case #certainly #events