Kevin Baggett quotes

A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
-- Kevin Baggett

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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

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.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

I had the constitution of a missionary.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.