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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
Sep 17, 2025
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.
My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.
The Church must send or the church will end.
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
Living a lie - pretending everything is fine when we are actually discontented - is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price for compromising on this honesty - and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self - this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our 'soul' purpose is our sole purpose in life.
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.
God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
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.
Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.
If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
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.
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.
To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.
When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.
I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.
Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support it, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life's experiences may prove to be, you can be able to endure and even prevail.
We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.