Missions Update

We walk by faith, not by sight. - 2 Corinthians 7

A man of courage is also full of faith. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. - Mason Cooley

The proverb answers where the sermon fails. - W.G. Simms

Holy Mackerel: Fish served at Church supper - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country. - Edward Everett Hale

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead! - John G Whittier

Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith. - Ravi Zacharias

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

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher

Irreligious men are often better suited for godly missions. - Hasidic Saying

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. - Mohandas Gandhi

I realized my mission in life was to learn more, not earn more. - Surya Das

Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do. - Barack Obama

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. - Pope Francis

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another. - D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - Mahatma Gandhi

There's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith. - Billy Graham

It takes much more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in a creator. - Francis Schaeffer

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray. - Billy Graham

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. - Josh Billings

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

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

I don't see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn't get breast implants. - Carrie Prejean

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. - C S Lewis

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. - Kingsley Amis

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

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from. - John Erskine

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

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. - Saadi

It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise again. - H R L Sheppard

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out. - John Fugelsang

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for. - Mark Zuckerberg

Two things are important for missionaries: (1) they have a sense of humour; and (2) the have no sense of smell. - Phil Callaway

The bulletin board on the lawn of a New Jersey Church reads "We reserve the right to accept everybody." - John Kazmark

More than anything else, prayer enables you to see your own heart and brings you into alignment with God's heart. - Ravi Zacharias

Faith isn't about always having all the answers. Faith is about believing that God will always come through for you. - Unknown

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. - G K Chesterton

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. - A.W. Tozer

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. - Voltaire

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them. - Nick Vujicic

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. - John Ortberg

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place. - Tyson Fury

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

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Appreciation is the highest from of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. - Samuel Johnson

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit, is devil's work. - George Bernard Shaw