#mission

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#missions #persecution #christ

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#surrender #trouble

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission. ↗

— John Green

#remission #cancer

Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique. ↗

— John R.W. Stott

#ideology

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

You see Jesus wrecked my life ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#christianity #faith #jesus #missionary #faith

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#believe #bucket-list #do-it #do-something #faith

Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-mission #purpose #life

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together. ↗

— Arthur T. Pierson

#life