Missions Update

Prayer - the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Homer Simpson

Cantaloupe: Got to get married in Church - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

You had no faith to lose and you know it. - Bob Dylan

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

Faith is believing what you know ain't so. - Mark Twain

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell

Babylon: What the Preacher does during some sermons - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. - George Matthew Adams

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. - David Jeremiah

Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk. - Michelle Horst

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. - Philip Brookes

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends. - Margot Asquith

There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds. - Alfred Tennyson

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault

Faith must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. - Mahatma Gandhi

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. - Elisabeth Elliot

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy. - Frank Sinatra

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. - Zig Ziglar

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was. - Vance Havner

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. - Peter Mere Latham

The Bible does not give us a road map for life, but it does give us a compass. - Gordon S. Jackson

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. - Phillip Pullman

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible

There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice. - C S Lewis

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Boom

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. - Reinhard Bonnke

I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman! - Homer Simpson

The value of persistent prayer is not that he will hear us, but that we will finally hear him. - William McGill

There's nothing like faith in God to help a fellow who gets booted around once in a while. - Jackie Robinson

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. - Frederick W. Cropp

The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless. - Joseph B Wirthlin

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Thomas Aquinas

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. - Max Lucado

Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. - Toba Beta

The longer you are on this journey of faith and understanding, you actually realize how little you do know. - Ravi Zacharias

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. - Thomas Paine

The Bible's full of wine. God ain't got nothing against a little drink to celebrate His Son's birthday with. - Archie Bunker

I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. - Nicholas Sparks

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - I Thessalonians 5:16-18

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

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. - Maya Angelou

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. - Mark Batterson

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church. - Donald Trump

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
I keep it, staying at Home
With a Bobolink for a Chorister
And an Orchard for a Dome - Emily Dickinson

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Francis of Assisi

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. - Stephen Covey

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

What is a prayer? Prayer is sending blessing to all. Prayer is sending your compassion to all. Prayer is creating an antidote of negative thoughts. - Osho