Tasks Quotes - Page 8

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

If the Lord calls you, He will equip you for the task He wants you to fulfill

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.

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.

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.

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

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.