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"If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo..." by Martin Luther King
"The world beckons for more `yuccies’ (Young, Upward Christian Consumers). Whereas Christ calls for more..." by Pete Hammond
"I am called to be a husband, father, and journalist. If it isn’t God’s will..." by Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek editor
"At baptism, you were made king, priest and prophet. King, when you trampled on all..." by Pete Hammond
"We seek success, God calls for us to be servants. We honor ambition, God desires..." by Pete Hammond
"Mother Teresa defines her vow of poverty as "complete freedom from possessions... We are first..." by Mother Teresa
"Mohandas Gandhi was born to an illiterate woman in 1869. Gandhi means 'grocer.' Mahatma means..." by Mohandas Gandhi
"Being a prophet meant having a position that no parents pushed their child into, no..." by Pete Hammond
"The call to piety is one where everything is questioned in terms of holiness. But..." by Pete Hammond
"Is lay ministry limited to what we do in church?... our own Catechism (BCP, p.855)..." by Diane Bringgold Brown
"Socrates said that a person should first understand oneself as a means of making a..." by Bill Pollard
"Today's common use of the word "vocation" suggests gainful employment, pay for services rendered. The..."
"The very influential Puritan writer of the late 1500s is described as follows: William Perkins,..." by Lelend Ryken
"In medieval Europe 30 kings, rulers and leaders left their posts to pursue the church's..." by Rev. Roy Blackwood
"In the Scriptures the word 'minister' is a verb (a thing done); now it is..." by Nelvin Vos
"Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the church, has a vocation to share in..." by F.C. Synge
"I tried to leave the practice of law on several occasions for ‘full-time Christian service,’..." by J. Timothy Cocamougher
"In nothing has the church so lost Her hold on reality as in Her failure..." by Dorothy Sayers
"St. Francis de Sales called for integration of religion and life in seventeenth century France...." by Father Gerald Foley
"We are living in times when not one of God’s children can escape God’s call..." by Sidney DeWaal
"The problem is to know whether what we do in the secular sphere of the..." by Yves Congar
"In my father’s view—and I think he was right in this—the factory floor in Detroit..." by John Ashcroft
"Common salt is composed of two deadly poisons, sodium and chlorine. Taken separately in sufficient..." by Paul Stevens
"Stevens again quoting Roland Allen: “Nowhere in the Bible do we find men were invited..." by Paul Stevens
"The religious act is always something partial; faith is something whole, involving the whole of..." by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"With persons as his hands, God gives his gifts through the earthly vocations, towards man’s..." by Gustaf Wingren
"How will a people raised to think that the church’s mission field was in China..." by Bill Diehl
"When I became a professor, I discovered very quickly that the meaning of my work..." by Jacques Ellul
"...I learned that I always thought I came into this world to go to church;..." by Nelvin Vos
"Religion is too serious a business to be left to the clergy." by James Reston
"By an accident of history, we in the west have evolved a culture that separates..." by Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos
"The ministry is for all who are called to share in Christ’s life, but the..." by Elton Trueblood
"One author, calling for a ‘new direction’ in the church’s approach to laity, suggests: ‘It..." by Tom Gillespie
"Vocation is responsibility and responsibility is a total response of the whole person to the..." by Peck and Hoffman
"We view the clergy as called while the laity choose their roles." by Peck and Hoffman
"The pastor and teacher exist to equip the saints for the ministry, not to preempt..." by Peck and Hoffman
"Gabriel Fackre identifies clergy as ministers of identity, laity as ministers of vitality. Ministry of..." by Peck and Hoffman
"Christ’s ministry and ours: Priest-pastoral includes modeling, caring, celebrating. Prophet includes teaching, critiquing, envisioning. King..." by Peck and Hoffman
"In original Christianity, then, the challenge of the call of discipleship was for all people...." by Leonard Doohan
"Christianity is essentially a lay movement founded by a lay Jew who was neither Sadducee..." by Anne Rowthorn
"As St. Catherine said, ‘All the way to heaven is heaven,’ because He had said,..." by Dorothy Day
"Ordination for Martin Luther means the Holy Spirit going public." by Historian Eric Gritsch
"There is simply and unequivocally no biblical mandate or justification for the clergy as we..." by Christian Smith
"Those who follow Jesus Christ continue his work of spreading the kingdom ways of justice,..." by Paul Minus
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