Asks Quotes - Page 12

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.

How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.

Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do.

The good chair is a task one is never completely done with

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.