vocation

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Calling is connection: Uncovering our calling is a deliberate choice to serve others and to make a difference in the world. Our calling is made manifest in service to others...it is paradoxical but true; we are more likely to receive the meaning and fulfillment we seek when we enable others to achieve the meaning and fulfillment they seek, as well.

Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. _ Bill Klein

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.