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“You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you ...”
“At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just cant shake.”
“Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler”
“The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and ...”
“And we need Christians who dont make others feel guilty (and dont feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. Thats what I do well. But ...”
“God gives much grace for great work.”
“Sometimes, when you attempt to run away from your true calling, all roads will conspire to lead you back to where you came from.”
“God gives grace for good work.”
“If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what y...”
“I pray for grace, strength and wisdom to faithfully fulfill my calling in due time.”
“There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it's time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn't mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it's time to move on...”
“Calling connects with passion.”
“If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.”
“Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. ...”
“Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.”
“Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world a...”
“No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.”
“Only God can make the common sacred.”
“it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts ...”
“I will forsake everything to fulfill the Fathers calling.”
