Leading Lives That Matter Quotes

“with a brown craft cardboard box and heavy crayola sign: MEN’S COSTUMES above it for the evening’s performance, he looked me up and down”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“From Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), p. 95.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“From Ethics, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, volume 6 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005), pp. 289-297.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“People do not fulfill the responsibility laid on them by faithfully performing their earthly vocational obligations as citizens, workers, and parents, but by hearing the call of Jesus Christ that, although it leads them also into earthly obligations, is never synonymous with these, but instead always transcends them as a reality standing before and behind them. Vocation in the New Testament sense is never a sanctioning of the worldly orders as such. Its Yes always includes at the same time the sharpest No, the sharpest protest against the world.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“Freedom of choice regarding occupation is a relatively novel social phenomenon. Those of us who are faced with such a choice are, historically speaking, a very small minority indeed.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“I was placed here for a purpose, and that purpose is one which I am, in part, to discover, not invent.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“Existential philosophers of atheist persuasion have dwelt upon the apparently accidental nature of our identities, and refer to such as the brute “facticity” or “thrownness” of human existence. We find ourselves thrown into a particular situation with no apparent rhyme or reason, and our task as human beings is to appropriate our absurd circumstances into a meaningful life project which we ourselves freely choose. But from a theistic point of view things look quite different. That I am who I am is not a result of chance, a mere cosmic accident. Rather it is the result of God’s intention.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“At certain junctures in our lives we are confronted with the need to identify our gifts and choose an occupation;”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“From Lee Hardy, The Fabric of This World (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990), pp. 80-93.”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

“Rather, the possession of those gifts places an obligation upon us to use them for the building up of the community of faith and the human community at large (Rom. 12:4-21).”
― Mark R. Schwehn, Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be