Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught.
Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.
Mots clés christianity calling vocation worldview workplace
He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it was not proper to become a painter; it couldn’t be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important.
Annie DillardMots clés vocation architecture painting drawing
Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.
John G. Stackhouse Jr.Mots clés god vocation dignity
Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.
Dillon BurroughsAh, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling had
one all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years a
Barrister, fifty a Physician, fifty a Clergyman, fifty a
Soldier! Aye, and fifty a Thief, and fifty a Judge! All
Roads are fine Roads, beloved Sister, none more than
another, so that with one Life to spend I am a Man
bare-bumm'd at Taylors with Cash for but one pair of
Breeches, or a Scholar at Brookstalls with Money for a
single Book: to choose ten were no Trouble; to choose one,
impossible! All Trades, all Crafts, all Professions are
wondrous, but none is finer than the rest together. I
cannot choose, sweet Anna: twixt Stools my Breech falleth
to the Ground!
Mots clés calling vocation john-barth
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
Friedrich NietzscheMots clés calling vocation creativity nietzsche
God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.
Pope John Paul IIMots clés free-will vocation salvation redemption
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
Timothy J. KellerMots clés work vocation idolatry
Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.
Timothy J. KellerMots clés work vocation boredom
Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
Madeleine L'EngleMots clés life art vocation creativity living artist career creative
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