T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-”
“The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.”
“The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.”
“The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.”
“The mission gets missed in the process when everyone else's voice take precedence and cause you to second guess your purpose.”
“The mission I’m on is way too personal. It’s a soul mission. I owe myself this come up.”
“The mission, I repeat, is to build a one world family, not one world government. Till the very word “government” is nowhere to be found but in books on ancient tribal rituals, keep on struggling, O Sapiens Impossible!”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.”
“The mission in very high altitude astronomy was to obtain the science at the expense of worker health and safety.”
“The Mission is completed...this is why you die!”
“The Mission is to do one’s passion work, which is the chariot you ride in the BECOMING part of existence.”
“The mission must turn bigger than the person for the person to turn the mission into reality.”
Source: See No Gender
“The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys such a distaste for learning that they never read another book as long as they live. No, the mission is to inspire you with a taste for scholarship - a taste which will last you all your life.”
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
“The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.”
Source: Thomas Merton: On Peace
“The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home.”
Source: Musings on Human Metamorphoses
“The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.”
“The mission of elegance is to defeat the ugliness of rudeness with beauty and thus create a more courteous world!”
“The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us—poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction—where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.”
Source: Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.”
“The mission of Life Surge points to a singular purpose—to know God and make Him known.”
“The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.”
“The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.”
“The mission of the church is missions.”
“The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more "laws" or law-like measures were put on the books than ever.”
“The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.”
“The mission of the media is to reflect the community to itself, to give the people a vision of who they are, what they're doing, what they want, what they need. I think motion pictures have been an incredible gift to humanity. I can't imagine living in a world without them.”
“The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.”
“The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.”
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
“The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.”
“The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.”
“The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know, and I know this woman has been underserved.”
“The mission that God has given us is a highly relational mission. Jesus said, "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you" John 20:21. Jesus came into this world, lived in obscurity for 30 years and then spent three years relationally investing in twelve men, whose charge was to do the same thing by relationally investing in others. This strategy has worked for 2000 years each of us has been touched by someone reaching out to and investing in us relationally, thus advancing the gospel and the mission of God.”
Source: First Steps for Planting a Missional Church
“The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.”
Source: Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk
“The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix”
Source: The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church
“The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed: You have no right to live among us. The German Nazis at last decreed: You have no right to live.”
Source: The destruction of the European Jews
“The missionaries were motivated by divine guidance to fulfill the mission despite the difficulties nor the dangers.”
“The missionaries were unable to grasp the nuanced Indigenous relationship with the divine since it was so unlike the structured, institutional nature of Christianity. Native spirituality, embedded in everyday life, didn’t represent an authentic religion to the Jesuits. The missionaries and other Christians dismissed the tribes’ spiritual ways as meritless or, worse, as products of the devil.”
Source: Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
“The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.”
Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic
“The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of missionaries and tens of thousands of native workers needed? Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.”
Source: The Evangelization of the World in this Generation
“The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.”
“The missionary Fanny Emma Fitzgerald Guinness was allowed to visit one Arab slave fort in 1890, seeing “rows upon rows of dark nakedness, relieved here and there by the white dresses of the captors” in one pen holding 2,300 souls. She estimated that for every one slave eventually sold, seven died either in the raids, in the camps, or while being transported to the Indian Ocean.”
Source: King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.”
Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
“The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.”
“The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.”