vocation

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.

We feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us, the realm of personal leadership, and what we are actually doing with our time, the realm of personal management. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spend your time.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was__y Time corporate standards__ust a little lazy.

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned _ it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned _ and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

Your calling is to be faithful to God where you are, and in doing this all work is sacred, spiritual, and worthy of your full attention and energy. When you get to work, you are not entering a secular environment as much as you are bringing the sacred into the world by following Christ wherever you are.