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Senin, 12 November 2012

Quote I

"kalo takut sama dosa, berdoa sama Tuhan jadikan kami malaikat. manusia tanpa dosa itu gak ada"

"sejak saat itu kita tak lagi bertemu. Kamu kembali ketempatmu, aku tetap jadi karang pantai yang cacat dihantam ombak. Desau angin terdengar bagai lagu sedih. Burung-burung hitam mengoak bagai caci maki sepanjang hari. Pantai yang tak punya perasaan." tuan setan_

"katakan kepada keluarganya, agama bukanlah manusia yang menilai takarannya, biarlah Tuhan yang menilai layak atau belum keimana kita, katakan kepada keluarganya, "kami hanya ingin menjalani karunia Tuhan yang disebut dengan cinta dan kasih sayang, kami hanya ingin melengkapi dan mencintai dengan semua kekurangan yang kami miliki masing-masing. Cinta kami masih bersandar teguh pada nilai-nilai agama kok." Temen gw_

"Setiap orang selalu butuh teman untuk berlayar, itulah sebabnya aku butuh kamu, seseorang yang akan menemaniku berlayar, melacak jejak "pulang"...Menuju Surga..."Temen gw_

"aku harap hujan turun dengan lebat agar tangis ku tak tampak oleh orang-orang yang menyayangiku" me_

"Memang orang tua mengenal dan tahu siapa itu anaknya bukan berarti mereka mengetahui apa yang anak mereka lakukan"_me

"Istri yang baik ialah mereka yang dapat menutupi kekurangan/ aib suaminya"

"masa depan anda bergantung dengan apa yang anda lakukan saat ini" _motivator

"Jangan mau hidup anda di atur oleh orang lain sekalipun itu keluarga anda" _me

“gapai semua cita-cita kamu dan buktikan lw bisa lebih dari yang mereka tunjukan ke lw, buat dia menyesal”

"Janganlah kmu membicarakan kejelekan seseorang, karena jika kmu membicarakan orang tersebut itu sama saja kamu dengan memakan daging mentah saudara kamu sendiri" Hadist_

"Barang siapa yg beriman pd Allah dan hri akhir ia adalah orang yg menghormati tamunya" Hadist_

"Mulailah semua dari hal yang terkecil, anda tidak akan percaya apa yang akan anda hasilkan" _me










Rabu, 04 April 2012

HAKIKAT HIDUP

Hidup ini bukan tentang mengumpulkan nilai. Bukan tentang berapa banyak orang yang menelponmu dan juga bukan tentang siapa pacarmu, bekas pacarmu atau orang yang belum kamu pacari. Bukan siapa yang telah kau cium, olahraga apa yang kamu mainkan, atau pemuda atau gadis mana yang menyukaimu. Bukan tentang sepatumu atau rambutmu atau warna kulitmu atau tempat tinggalmu atau sekolahmu. Bahkan, juga buka tentang nilai-nilai ujianmu, uang, baju, atau perguruan tinggi yang menerima atau yang tidak menerimamu. Hidup ini bukan tentang apakah kamu memiliki banyak teman, atau apakah kamu seorang diri dan bukan tentang apakah kamu diterima atau tidak diterima oleh lingkunganmu. Hidup Bukanlah Tentang Itu!!!


Namun, hidup ini adalah tentang siapa yang kau cintai dan siapa yang kau sakiti. Tentang bagaimana perasaanmu tentang dirimu sendiri. Tentang kepercayaan, kebahagiaan, dan welas asih. Hidup adalah tentang menghindari rasa cemburu, mengatasi rasa tidak peduli, dan membina kepercayaan. Tentang apa yang kau katakan dan yang kau maksudkan. Tentang menghargai orang apa adanya dan bukan karena apa yang dimilikinya. Dan yang terpenting, hidup ini adalah tentang memilih untuk menggunakan hidupmu untuk menyentuh hidup orang lain dengan cara yang tak bisa digantikan dengan cara yang lain. Hidup adalah tentang pilihan-pilihan itu.

Jumat, 02 Desember 2011

Ironi Dari Sebuah Kemunafikan

Dia yang termenung dan termangu
Seakan-akan tersedot kedalam lubang hitam dalam pikirannya yang nyaris beku
Perangai itu masih disana
Perangai yang menghubungkan antara hati dan logika

Sebuah antagonistik yang masih menjelajahi kelimbungan
Dan masih bermain dengan kesetiaan
Atau mungkinkah ini adalah sebuah penghianatan?

Persetan dengan etika!
Bibir berkata, hati berkelana, dan Otak menyimpang entah kemana

Semua begitu kontradiksi
Tidak ada kejelasan
Tidak ada keselarasan
Dan sesosok individu hilang dari kriteria tegas atas sebuah karakteristik

Dia hanyalah maya atas dirinya…
Dia hanyalah abu-abu…
Dia hanyalah remang…

Dia tidak cukup nyata untuk menjadi nyata.

www.mizzy-sebuahperananjiwa.blogspot.com
yanny widjanarko [yuvani99@...]


Senin, 10 Oktober 2011

Ungkapan Soe Hok Gie


“Pertanyaan pertama yang harus kita jawab adalah: Who am I? Saya telah menjawab bahwa saya adalah seorang intelektual yang tidak mengejar kuasa tapi seorang yang ingin mencanangkan kebenaran. Dan saya bersedia menghadapi ketidak-populeran, karena ada suatu yang lebih besar: kebenaran.”

"Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow."

“Bagiku sendiri politik adalah barang yang paling kotor. Lumpur-lumpur yang kotor. Tapi suatu saat di mana kita tidak dapat menghindari diri lagi, maka terjunlah.”

“Guru yang tak tahan kritik boleh masuk keranjang sampah. Guru bukan Dewa dan selalu benar, dan murid bukan kerbau.”

“Nasib terbaik adalah tidak dilahirkan, yang kedua dilahirkan tapi mati muda, dan yang tersial adalah umur tua. Rasa-rasanya memang begitu. Bahagialah mereka yang mati muda.”

“Saya memutuskan bahwa saya akan bertahan dengan prinsip-prinsip saya. Lebih baik diasingkan daripada menyerah terhadap kemunafikan.”

“Mimpi saya yang terbesar, yang ingin saya laksanakan adalah, agar mahasiswa Indonesia berkembang menjadi “manusia-manusia yang biasa”. Menjadi pemuda-pemuda dan pemudi-pemudi yang bertingkah laku sebagai seorang manusia yang normal, sebagai seorang manusia yang tidak mengingkari eksistensi hidupnya sebagai seorang mahasiswa, sebagai seorang pemuda dan sebagai seorang manusia”.

“Saya ingin melihat mahasiswa-mahasiswa, jika sekiranya ia mengambil keputusan yang mempunyai arti politis, walau bagaimana kecilnya, selalu didasarkan atas prinsip-prinsip yang dewasa. Mereka yang berani menyatakan benar sebagai kebenaran, dan salah sebagai kesalahan. Dan tidak menerapkan kebenaran atas dasar agama, ormas, atau golongan apapun.”

“Masih terlalu banyak mahasiswa yang bermental sok kuasa. Merintih kalau ditekan, tetapi menindas kalau berkuasa. Mementingkan golongan, ormas, teman seideologi dan lain-lain. Setiap tahun datang adik-adik saya dari sekolah menengah. Mereka akan jadi korban-korban baru untuk ditipu oleh tokoh-tokoh mahasiswa semacam tadi.”

“Sejarah dunia adalah sejarah pemerasan. Apakah tanpa pemerasan sejarah tidak ada? Apakah tanpa kesedihan, tanpa pengkhianatan, sejarah tidak akan lahir?”

“Bagiku perjuangan harus tetap ada. Usaha penghapusan terhadap kedegilan, terhadap pengkhianatan, terhadap segala-gala yang non humanis…”

"Kita seolah merayakan demokrasi, tetapi memotong lidah orang-orang yang berani menyatakan pendapat mereka yang merugikan pemerintah.”

“Bagi saya KEBENARAN biarpun bagaimana sakitnya lebih baik daripada kemunafikan. Dan kita tak usah merasa malu dengan kekurangan-kekurangan kita.”

“Potonglah kaki tangan seseorang lalu masukkan di tempat 2 x 3 meter dan berilah kebebasan padanya. Inilah kemerdekaan pers di Indonesia.”

“To be a human is to be destroyed.”

“Saya tak mau jadi pohon bambu, saya mau jadi pohon oak yang berani menentang angin.”

“Saya putuskan bahwa saya akan demonstrasi. Karena mendiamkan kesalahan adalah kejahatan.”

“I’m not an idealist anymore, I’m a bitter realist.”

“Saya kira saya tak bisa lagi menangis karena sedih. Hanya kemarahan yang membuat saya keluar air mata.”

“Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan.”

“Saya tak tahu mengapa, Saya merasa agak melankolik malam ini. Saya melihat lampu-lampu kerucut dan arus lalu lintas jakarta dengan warna-warna baru. Seolah-olah semuanya diterjemahkan dalam satu kombinasi wajah kemanusiaan. Semuanya terasa mesra tapi kosong. Seolah-olah saya merasa diri saya yang lepas dan bayangan-bayangan yang ada menjadi puitis sekali di jalan-jalan. Perasaan sayang yang amat kuat menguasai saya. Saya ingin memberikan sesuatu rasa cinta pada manusia, pada anjing-anjing di jalanan, pada semua-muanya.”

“Tak ada lagi rasa benci pada siapapun. Agama apapun, ras apapun dan bangsa apapun. Dan melupakan perang dan kebencian. Dan hanya sibuk dengan pembangunan dunia yang lebih baik. “
saya hanya ingin tekankan bahwa tidak ada HMI atau GMI di dalam senat ini tidak ada Golongan apapun,  individu- individu terpilih bukanlah wakil ormas-ormas melaikan individu- individu yang cakap

Sabtu, 25 Juni 2011

Cinta Tanpa Syarat

Dikisahkan, ada sebuah keluarga besar. Kakek dan nenek mereka merupakan pasangan suami istri yang tampak serasi dan selalu harmonis satu sama lain. Suatu hari, saat berkumpul bersama, si cucu bertanya kepada mereka berdua, "Kakek nenek, tolong beritahu kepada kami resep akur dan cara kakek dan nenek mempertahan cinta selama ini agar kami yang muda-muda bisa belajar."

Mendengar pertanyaan itu, sesaat kakek dan nenek beradu pandang sambil saling melempar senyum. Dari tatapan keduanya, terpancar rasa kasih yang mendalam di antara mereka. "Aha, nenek  yang akan bercerita dan menjawab pertanyaan kalian," kata kakek.

Sambil menerawang ke masa lalu, nenek pun memulai kisahnya.  "Ini pengalaman kakek dan nenek yang tak mungkin terlupakan dan rasanya perlu kalian dengar dengan baik. Suatu hari, kami berdua terlibat obrolan tentang sebuah artikel di majalah yang berjudul ‘bagaimana memperkuat tali pernikahan'. Di sana dituliskan, masing-masing dari kita diminta mencatat hal-hal yang kurang disukai dari pasangan kita. Kemudian, dibahas cara untuk mengubahnya agar ikatan tali pernikahan bisa lebih kuat dan bahagia. Nah, malam itu, kami sepakat berpisah kamar dan mencatat apa saja yang tidak disukai. Esoknya, selesai sarapan, nenek memulai lebih dulu membacakan daftar dosa kakekmu sepanjang kurang lebih tiga halaman. Kalau dipikir-pikir, ternyata banyak juga, dan herannya lagi, sebegitu banyak yang tidak disukai, tetapi tetap saja kakek kalian menjadi suami tercinta nenekmu ini," kata nenek sambil tertawa. Mata tuanya tampak berkaca-kaca mengenang kembali saat itu.

Lalu nenek melanjutkan, "Nenek membacanya hingga selesai dan kelelahan. Dan, sekarang giliran kakekmu yang melanjutakan bercerita." Dengan suara perlahan, si kakek meneruskan. "Pagi itu, kakek membawa kertas juga, tetapi....kosong. Kakek tidak mencatat sesuatu pun di kertas itu. Kakek merasa nenekmu adalah wanita yang kakek cintai apa adanya, kakek tidak ingin mengubahnya sedikit pun. Nenekmu cantik, baik hati, dan mau menikahi kakekmu ini, itu sudah lebih dari cukup bagi kakek."

Nenek segera menimpali, "Nenek sungguh sangat tersentuh oleh pernyataan kakekmu itu sehingga sejak saat itu, tidak ada masalah atau sesuatu apapun yang cukup besar yang dapat menyebabkan kami bertengkar dan mengurangi perasaan cinta kami berdua."

Pembaca yang budiman,

Sering kali di kehidupan ini, kita lebih banyak menghabiskan waktu dan energi untuk memikirkan sisi yang buruk, mengecewakan dan yang menyakitkan. Padahal, pada saat yang sama kita pun sebenarnya punya kemampuan untuk bisa menemukan banyak hal indah di sekeliling kita.

Saya yakin dan percaya, kita akan menjadi manusia yang berbahagia jika kita mampu berbuat, melihat, dan bersyukur atas hal-hal baik di kehidupan ini dan senantiasa mencoba untuk melupakan yang buruk yang pernah terjadi. Dengan demikian, hidup akan dipenuhi dengan keindahan, pengharapan, dan kedamaian.

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HANYA ADA 1 YANG KURANG DARI WANITA,,, DIA LUPA BETAPA BERHARGANYA DIA.....

Ketika Tuhan menciptakan WANITA,

malaikat datang dan bertanya..."Mengapa kau begitu lama menciptakan WANITA Tuhan???"

Tuhan menjawab, "Sudahkah engkau melihat setiap detail yang saya ciptakan untuk WANITA??"
"Dua tangannya mampu menjaga banyak anak pada saat bersamaan, punya pelukan yang dapat menyembuhkan sakit hati dan keterpurukan, dan semua itu hanya dengan 2 tangan".

Malaikat menjawab dan takjub," hanya dengan 2 tangan ???????? tidak mungkin!!!!!!!"

Tuhan menjawab "tidak kah kau tau,,,dia jg mampu menyembuhkan dirinya sendiri dan bisa bekerja 18 jam sehari ".

Malaikat mendekat dan mengamati WANITA tersebut, dan bertanya, " Tuhan,,,kenapa wanita terlihat begitu lelah dan rapuh ??????,,, seolah2 terlalu banyak beban baginya...."

Tuhan menjawab " itu tidak seperti yang kau bayangkan,,, itu adalah air mata...."

"untuk apa??????" tanya malaikat....

Tuhan melanjutkan " air mata adalah salah satu cara dia mengekspresikan kegembiraan,, kegalauan,, cinta,,, kesepian,,, penderitaan,,, dan kebanggaan.... serta wanita ini mempunyai kekuatan mempesona laki2...ini hanya beberapa kemampuan yang dimiliki WANITA....."
"dia dapat mengatasi beban lebih dari laki2,,,, dia mampu menyimpan kebahagiaan dan pendapatnya sendiri....."
"dia mampu tersenyum saat hatinya menjerit,,, mampu menyanyi saat menangis,,,menangis saat terharu,,,bahkan tertawa saat ketakutan...."
" dia berkorban demi orang yang dicintainya.."
" dia mampu berdiri melawan ketidakadilan..."
" dia menangis saat melihat anaknya adalah pemenang...."
" dia girang dan bersorak saat kawanya tertawa bahagia..."
" dia begitu bahagia mendengar suara kelahiran...."
" dia begitu bersedih mendengar berita kesakitan dan kematian,,, tapi dia mampu mengatasinya...dia tau bahwa sebuah ciuman dan pelukan dapat menyembuhkan luka...."

"CINTANYA TANPA SYARAT,,,,"


" HANYA ADA 1 YANG KURANG DARI WANITA,,, DIA LUPA BETAPA BERHARGANYA DIA....."

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Rabu, 16 Maret 2011

Quotes on Missions ( Pray for Japan 日本 )

"Why is it so difficult to replace a sophisticated way of life with a simple lifestyle in the face of incredible need in the world?  Why is it so difficult to say farewell to warm personal relationships and the security of a loving family and church and commit one's life to penetrating the dark half of the world for the sake of people who are desperately lost?  Why will so few abandon an occupation that makes full use of their vocational interests and opportunities to invest life in reaching the multitudes now out of reach of Gospel witness?  Is is that we don't care?  At least, it is that we don't care enough." 

Robertson McQuilkin

 

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor 

 

“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”  C.T. Studd

 

“The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self.  Self that refuses to die.  Self that refuses to sacrifice.  Self that refuses to give.  Self that refuses to go.”  Thomas Hale – missionary to Nepal

 

Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions." - Leonard Ravenhill

 

“We desire men who believe in eternity and who live for it.  It is no question of making the most of both worlds.  The only men who will be happy with us are those who have this world under their feet.  And I do venture to say that such men will find a happiness they never dreamed of or thought possible down here.  For to those who count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, He manifests Himself in such sort that they are not inclined to regret their bargain.”   Hudson Taylor

 

"It is a blessed thing for a man, when he has brought his desires into focus, so that they all center on one object.  Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ.  You could pour all the gold of India at his feet and he would say'Take it , away'".  C.H. Spurgeon  

I never feel so happy as when with all my worldly goods on one donkey, and my wife on another, I set out to carry the Gospel to some new place.”  Thomas Botham - missionary to China 

 

There is a need for us to give ourselves for the life of the world.  An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.  Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing.  There are not two Christs – an easy-going one for easy-going Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for serious believers.  There is only one Christ.  Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus bear much fruit?  Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there; and Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to bring Him joy by the conversion to Him of many."  Hudson Taylor

 

"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" -- John Keith Falconer

 

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" -- Hudson Taylor

 

"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor

 

"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor

 

"I will open Africa to the Gospel or die trying." Rowland Bingham

 

 

"... if God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you... remember it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or Samuel."  "I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China, I don't know who it was.  It must have been a man, well-educated man.  I don't know what happened.  Perhaps he died.  Perhaps he wasn't willing, and God looked down and saw Gladys Aylward and God said - "Well, she's willing." Gladys Aylward 

 

"True religion is like the smallpox.  If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads." C.T. Studd

 

"Had I cared for the comments of the people, I should never have become a missionary..." ." C.T. Studd

 

"I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ.  I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give ... but those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me." C.T. Studd

 

"My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it." C.T. Studd

 

 

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor, missionary to China

 

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" -- William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions

 

"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." -- Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

 

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador 

 

"We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it" -- P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

 

"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone

 

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone

 

"Sympathy is no substitute for action." -- David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

 

"Can't you do just a little bit more?" -- J.G. Morrison pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries

 

"Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us." -- Keith Wright

 

"The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission

 

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." -- C.T. Studd

 

"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith  

 

"The mission of the church is missions" -- Oswald J. Smith

 

 

"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith

 

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green

 

"There is nothing in the world or the Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement

 

"If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Groom (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

 

"If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death." -- Dave Davidson

 

"World missions was on God's mind from the beginning." -- Dave Davidson

 

 

"In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?" -- Dave Davidson

 

"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" -- Bob Pierce, World Vision founder

 

"No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" -- William Borden

 

"If ten men are carrying a log -- nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end -- and you want to help, which end will you lift on?" -- William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples in China

 

"The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." -- unknown

 

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

 

"Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not – are truly saved." -- Charles Spurgeon

 

"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry

 

"Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." -- Kurt von Schleicher 

 

"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." --John Piper

 

"God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshippers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose." -- John Piper

 

"Go, send, or disobey." -- John Piper 

 

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

 

"As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both." -- J. L. Ewen

 

"The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed -- in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland." -- Robert Savage, Latin American Mission

 

"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." -- Nate Saint, missionary martyr 

 

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." -- John Stott

 

"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." -- K.P. Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia Bible Society

 

"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." -- Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura

 

"The true greatness of any church in not how many it seats but how many it sends!" -- Unknown

 

"'Not called!' did you say? Not heard the call?  "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. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. -- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

 

"If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere." -- Edward Lawlor, Nazarene General Superintendent

 

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." -- Robert C. Shannon

 

"People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South." -- J. Howard Edington

 

"It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions." -- John R. Mott

 

"In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer." -- Dick Eastman, president of Every Home for Christ (formerly World Literature Crusade)

 

"What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?" -- Eleanor Roat, missions mobilizer

 

"We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer." -- Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International

 

"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" -- Roderick Davis

 

"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" -- Roland Allen

 

"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." -- Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

 

"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers" -- Nina Gunter

 

"If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence." -- David Bosch

 

"Missions is not the 'ministry of choice' for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church." -- Unknown

 

"The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian." -- James S. Stewart

 

"The average pastor views his church as a local church with a missions program; while he ought to realize that if he is in fact pastoring a church, it is to be a global church with a missions purpose." -- Unknown

 

"The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world." -- A. B. Simpson

 

"The will of God -- nothing less, nothing more, nothing else." -- F. E. Marsh (also attributed to Bobby Richardson)

 

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

 

"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

 

"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer." -- Samuel Zwemer

 

"'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.' You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth." -- J. Stuart Holden

 

"A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation." -- Ted Engstrom, World Vision

 

"To stay here and disobey God -- I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed." -- Amanda Berry Smith

 

 

"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!" -- Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

 

"To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map." -- William Carey, pioneer missionary to India

 

"God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit." -- George W. Peters

 

"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet." -- Unknown

 


"Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."   If we do not give over, exhausted and disheartened.  He who becomes disheartened, and who   gives over his efforts; he that is appalled by obstacles, and that faints on account of the embarrassments thrown in his way; he that pines for ease, and withdraws from the field of benevolence, shows that he has no true attachment to the cause, and that his heart has never been truly in the work of religion.  He who becomes a true Christian, becomes such for eternity. He has enlisted, never to withdraw. He becomes pledged to do good and to serve God always. No obstacles are to deter, no embarrassments are to drive him from the field. With the vigor of his youth, and the wisdom and influence of his riper years; with his remaining powers when enfeebled by age; with the last pulsation of life here, he is to do good. For that he is to live.  --Albert Barnes

 

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