Quotes about Mission
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
— Hudson Taylor
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
— Thomas Merton
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.
— Francis Chan
Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls
— William Booth
I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.
— Polycarp
Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.
— Catherine Booth
If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
— John Wesley
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.
— John Wesley
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.
— CS Lewis
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
— William Barclay
God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
— Hudson Taylor