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Quotable quotes
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- To grasp God in all things - this is the sign of your new birth.
Meister Eckhart
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- . . . the discovery of true purpose is not any one person's job. It is the job of the gathered community . . to remind one another that the lives God is calling us to are the ones that we are living right now.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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- Ministry isn't always what we go and do. It's what we do as we go.
Nelvin Vos
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- There is no work better than another to please God. To wash dishes and to preach are all one.
William Tyndale
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- Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess.
Parker Palmer
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- The first demand on a carpenter's religion is that he makes good tables. What use is anything else if in the center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry.
Dorothy Sayers
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- Voltaire's hero in the land of Eldorado saw no temples and wondered if the people had any faith in God; he was told that they had indeed, but that their worship was constituted by their daily work.
(from Candide, chap. xviii.)
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- In nothing has the Church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect secular vocation.
Dorothy Sayers
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- Jesus is in the legislature where I am called to serve. If he were not there, I should not be there either.
Byron Rushing
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