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Quotables
A collection of words which offer windows into the dynamic relation between faith, vocation, and culture, from friends near and far, young and old. |
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"...God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners..."
William Wilberforce
Real Christianity
Member of Parliament, 18th-century
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"...Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of Men & citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect & to cherish them… Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure—reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle..."
George Washington
Farewell Address
1796
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"...Observe good faith & justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace & harmony with all. Religion & morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence..."
George Washington
Farewell Address
1796 |
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"...There are some who long to know, simply for the sake of knowing, and that is shameful curiosity. Others long to know to show off before others, and that is shameful vanity. There are others who long for knowledge to make a fat profit from it, or to make honors from it; and this is shameful profiteering. But there are those who long to know in order to be of service to others; and this is charity..."
Bernard of Clairvaux
The Love of God
11th-century |
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"...When Christ calls a man, He bids Him come and die..."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German pastor and martyr
20th-century |
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"...There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough..."
Mother Teresa |
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"...True holiness is doing God’s work with a smile..."
Mother Teresa |
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"...At crucial moments of choice, most of the business of choosing is already over..."
Iris Murdoch
Oxford don
20th-century |
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"...Everything done in the world is done by hope..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...To serve God is for every one to remain in his vocation and calling, be it ever so mean and simple..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...It may well be that you may have some tasks which are as good or better than prayer, especially in an emergency. There is a saying ascribed to St. Jerome that everything a believer does is prayer and a proverb, "He who works faithfully prays twice." This can be said because a believer fears and honors God in his work and remembers the commandment not to wrong anyone, or to try to steal, defraud, or cheat. Such thoughts and such faith undoubtedly transform his work into prayer and a sacrifice of praise..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. He who engages in the lowliness of his work performs God's work, be he lad or king..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...To give one's office proper care is not selfishness. Devotion to office is devotion to love, because it is by God's own ordering that the work of the office is always dedicated to the well-being of one's neighbor. Care for one's office is, in its very frame of reference on earth, participation in God's own care for human beings..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...Therefore, just as those who are now called "spiritual" -- priests, bishops or popes -- are neither different from other Christians nor superior to them, except that they are charged with the administration of the Word of God and the sacraments, which is their work and office, so it is with the temporal authorities, -- they bear sword and rod with which to punish the evil and to protect the good..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...A cobbler, a smith, a farmer, each has the work and office of his trade, and yet they are all alike consecrated priests and bishops, and every one by means of his own work or office must benefit and serve every other, that in this way many kinds of work may be done for the bodily and spiritual welfare of the community, even as all the members of the body serve one another..."
Martin Luther
German pastor
16th-century |
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"...We know that men were created for the express purpose of being employed in labor of various kinds, and that no sacrifice is more pleasing to God than when every man applies diligently to his own calling, and endeavors to live in such a manner as to contribute to the general advantage..."
John Calvin
Commentary on Genesis
17th-century |
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by Steve Garber
A few years ago a pastor in the city asked if I would meet someone in his congregation whose work was in the world of national security. A senior official with complex responsibilities, he knew that his deepening faith required him to “think Christianly” about his life and labour, but he did not know where to begin.
by Kate Harris
In Washington DC, it is only a matter of time before the kind woman standing next to me at a cocktail party will turn from talking with my husband and ask the inevitable, identity-testing, status-gauging question I have come to dread as a new and mostly stay-at-home mother…“And what do you do?”
by Ray Blunt
Martin Luther doesn’t make many appearances in the pages of the numerous leadership tomes that reach bookstore shelves each year...but what not many may know is that those in public service owe him a large debt of gratitude because he introduced the idea that a calling (i.e. a vocation) is of critical importance in secular life. More »
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"...So at the end of our time as a band perhaps we will have only one song to sing -- just one very long, rambling, eclectic song that touches on life, death, pain, sex, anger, joy, peace, politics, God and the other elements of a searching soul in the twenty first century.
Maybe at the end of my life I will sing only one song, a song that has been refined and purified. A lonely group of notes that will be a sweet, sweet sound for an audience of one..."
Jon Foreman
Switchfoot
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