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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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"...The very notion of worship is based on an intuition and experience of the world as an "epiphany" of God, thus the world - in worship- is revealed in its true nature and vocation as "sacrament..."
Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Worship in a Secular Age
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"...The first, the basic definition of man is that he is the priest. He stands in the center of the world and unifies it in his act of blessing God, of both receiving the world from God and offering it to God..."
Fr. Alexander Schmemann
For the Life of the World
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"...Our human vocation is self-transcendence and unification. We are called by God’s grace to reach out beyond space into infinity, beyond time into eternity. It is our task to mediate between the created world and the Uncreated..."
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Through the Creation to the Creator
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"...Our human task is the “bond” and “bridge” of God’s creation… uniting earth and heaven, making earth heavenly and heaven earthly..."
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Through the Creation to the Creator
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"...Our human vocation, briefly expressed, is to be priest of the creation. As logical animals, possessing self-awareness and free choice— and at the same time as eucharistic animals who are being deified—it is our supreme privilege, consciously and gratefully, to offer the created world back to God the Creator..."
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Through the Creation to the Creator
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"...At the Eucharist we offer to God the fruits of the earth, not in their initial state, but reshaped through our human skills; we bring to the altar not grains of wheat but bread, not bunches of grapes but wine. And so it is throughout all human life..."
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Through the Creation to the Creator
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"...As humans, then, we modify and refashion the creation. The world is not only a gift but a task..."
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Through the Creation to the Creator
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"...Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece..."
Pope John Paul II
Letter to Artists
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"...Those who perceive in themselves this kind of divine spark which is the artistic vocation -- as poet, writer, sculptor, architect, musician, actor and so on -- feel at the same time the obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it at the service of their neighbor and of humanity as a whole..."
Pope John Paul II
Letter to Artists
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"...True art has a close affinity with the world of faith, so that, even in situations where culture and the Church are far apart, art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience. In so far as it seeks the beautiful fruit of an imagination which rises above the everyday, art is by its nature a kind of appeal to the mystery. Even when they explore the darkest depths of the soul or the most unsettling aspects of evil, artists give voice in a way to the universal desire for redemption..."
Pope John Paul II
Letter to Artists
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"...At the Eucharist we offer to God the fruits of the earth, not in their initial state, but reshaped through our human skills; we bring to the altar not grains of wheat but bread, not bunches of grapes but wine. And so it is throughout all human life..."
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Through the Creation to the Creator
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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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"...The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly "as to the Lord." This does not, of course, mean that it is for anyone a mere toss-up whether he should sweep rooms or compose symphonies. A mole must dig to the glory of God and a cock must crow..."
C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
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"...Love God and do what you will..."
St. Augustine
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"...Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue; Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think, or speak, or do.
The task thy wisdom hath assigned, O let me cheerfully fulfil; In all my works thy presence find, And prove thine acceptable will..."
Charles Wesley |
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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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"...I ask that the Church should use a decent humility before the artist, whose calling is as direct as that of the priest, and whose business it is to serve God in his own technique and not in somebody else’s..."
Dorothy Sayers
Letters
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