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The malpractice of some, however, should not lead to the nonpractice of others.
“Of course the introduction of conscription at this stage did not give us an army. It only applied to the men of twenty years of age; they had still to be trained; and after they had been trained they had still to be armed.”
― The Gathering Storm, 1948
― The Gathering Storm, 1948
“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“The kingdom of God ought to reshape our vision of what matters and who matters,”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“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.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
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.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
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