Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.
Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.
Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom
Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.
I think windows are really important for the psychological health of crew members on long duration missions. It is nice to look outside, even if it is dark.
I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmerized me. All this detail! That's what I wanted.
The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.
For me it's very important to think about AI's impact in the world, and one of the most important missions is to democratize this technology.
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.
God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.
I don't like small things, I like big missions.
I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years.
The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.
Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?
If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.
If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.
It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.
I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.
I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.
Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world.
In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
CIA has learned some tough lessons, especially when asked to tackle missions that fall outside our expertise.
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.
Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.
I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
Technology is a wonderful thing. It should reduce errors, save taxpayers money, and be a tool to help agencies accomplish their missions. It should not be a burden.
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'.
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!
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