Commission Quotes

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions.

The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

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George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year.

Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award.

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone.

The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church.

Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

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!

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.