Quotes About Task

My main task is to enlighten the spirits and put all the dogmas to death.

The church is not supposed to be a society of perfect people doing great work. It's a society of forgiven sinners repaying their unpayable debt of love by working for Jesus's kingdom in every way they can, knowing themselves to be unworthy of the task.

The church's task in the world is to model genuine humanness as a sign and an invitation to those around.

Our task is to implement Jesus' unique achievement . We are like the musicians called to play and sing the unique and once-only-written musical score. We don't have to write it again, but we have to play it. Or, in the image Paul uses in I Corinthians 3, we are now in the position of young architects discovering a wonderful foundation already laid by a master architect and having to work out what sort of building was intended.

But there is no such thing as a small errand in the kingdom of God.

Jesus's followers themselves were to be given a new kind of task. The Great Jailer had been overpowered; now someone had to go and unlock the prison doors. Forgiveness of sins had been accomplished, robbing the idols of their power; someone had to go and announce the amnesty to "sinners" far and wide. And this had to be done by means of the new sort of power: the cross-resurrection-Spirit kind of power. The power of suffering love.

hope it is clear, in fact, that this task of telling people about Jesus remains vital.

Aquel era uno de esos trabajos que convertían a los cazadores en leyendas. Aunque, por supuesto, para convertirse en leyenda por lo general había que estar muerto.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

For such an important task, we need to have our thoughts and attitudes and our dreams and desires shaped by Scripture.

Another way the Stoics counsel us to adapt to the uncertainty of outcomes is through an analogy with archery. In shooting an arrow, the "objective" is to hit the target, but the "goal" or "end" "is to do all in one's power to shoot straight," "to do all one can to accomplish the task.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Hurry up!" said a ghoul. who started to yawn. "There's so much to do before bedtime at dawn.

I have a tendency to over-focus on the task in hand, with an exclusivity that is borderline autistic.

Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.

Without work men are utterly undone.

She had to be the king's fist, a killer. She had asked for this task. It must be done.

When you're a one man show, you have to focus on the most important thing to get done today.

The highest task of education is—to take command of one's transcendental self—to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.

Ölmek bile kendilerine böyle bir görev verilenlerin i?idir.

Like most of my predecessors, I have hunted the unicorn chiefly in libraries, realizing the delightful absurdity of the task quite as fully as any one could point it out to me.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Playfulness is the cornerstone of emotional fulfilment, a key to insight and volition. It can be activated by any kind of everyday task from gardening to washing up. Although we need to earn a living, and although there are many practical tasks we have to perform, living as playfully as possible makes our existence infinitely more worthwhile.

Our task is to focus on our individual callings in engaging with the world, to trust that others are following theirs too, and to leave to God the masterminding of the grand outcome.