As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well -- a trick I had learned from my father.
Maria V. SnyderEntering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom poetry soul literature flying space scientists quotes thoughts galaxy scientist cell poetry-quotes task entering literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic honorable penetrating
Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about themselves from the moment they could wail for their mothers, and the decision to give them at church what they can find in any self-help book appears now as a choice to abandon the One in whose honor the church gathers. What they need is to be set free from themselves with finality and to be lost in the awesome wonder of the manifest presence of God. It was never God’s desire that He would sit on the sideline and watch us frantically devise impressive ways to reach people or simply hold the line on orthodoxy as though faithfulness can exist in a vacuum apart from fruitfulness. God is the Matter of first importance! Can you say that about your current weekly encounter with church?
James MacDonaldTag: vision god church worship focus encounter task
The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.
Erich FrommTag: philosopher support voice moral transform task human-conscience uncompromising
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world.
Inscription on a church wall in Sussex England c. 1730Tag: vision hope dream action task
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.
Denis DiderotTag: science work dark light genius goal perfectionism landscape boundaries creative picture realm task sagacity immense vast
We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.
Ivan MichurinTag: science optimism nature discovery task favour
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