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“The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.”
Source: On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975
“The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work.”
“The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.”
“The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.”
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”
“The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.”
“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.”
“The task of life is to face sacred moments.”
“The task of literature, it seems, is precisely to present, as people worthy of respect and pity, all those who in life are commonly despised. Thus authors adopt a rather lofty position in relation to the rest of the world, taking upon themselves the role of sole defenders of the aforesaid despised, assuming the role of judges, defence, and prosecution rolled into one, and undertaking the hard task of educating the masses and purveying great ideas.”
Source: Immortal Love
“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements. First it gets us into the sanctuary, the place of adoration and attention, listening and receiving and believing before God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives ordered to all aspects of the revelation of God in Jesus.
Then it gets us out of the sanctuary into the world into places of obeying and loving ordering our lives as living sacrifices in the world to the glory of God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives out on the street participating in the work of salvation.”
Source: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.”
“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”
Source: Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self
“The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.”
“The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.”
“The task of philosophy is not to invalidate reason, but to discover its contradictions and to demonstrate its limitations while preserving its immanence.”
Source: العزلة والمجتمع
“The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.”
“The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.”
Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
“The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.”
Source: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
“The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.”
“The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.”
“The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.”
Source: Disease, Life, and Man: Selected Essays
“The task of the apologist is not simply to show that there is no hope of eternal salvation outside of Christ, but also that the unbeliever has no present intellectual hope outside of Christ. It is foolish for him to build his house on the ruinous sands of human opinion, instead of the verbal rock of Christ (Matt. 7:24-27). He needs to see that those who suppress the truth of God in unrighteousness inescapably "become vain in their reasoning… Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools" (Rom. 1:21-22). Their opposition to the faith amounts to no more than a "knowledge falsely so called" (1 Tim. 6:20-21), by which they actually "oppose themselves" in ignorance (2 Tim. 2:23, 25).”
“The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.”
“The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.”
“The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.”
Source: Haydn and The Valve Trumpet
“The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.”
Source: Lucian Freud
“The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.”
“The task of the cervix is to stay closed, to make an impenetrable wall protecting the fetus, for approximately forty weeks of a pregnancy. After that, by means of labor, the wall must somehow become an opening. This happens through dilation, which is not a shattering, but an extreme thinning.”
Source: The Argonauts
“The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.”
“The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .”
Source: Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs
“The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.”
“The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more that of providing opportunities for people to touch the infinite center of all things and to grow into all that they are destined to be.”
“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.”
Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.”
Source: The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
“The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.”
“The task of the human soul is simply to return from its exile in our shadowy, less-than-real material world to an ecstatic union with the One Source of all reality.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a cacophony of misdirected protests. His task is to remind them of who they are and what they ought to be. Our values are not to be taken from conduct of our adversaries but from the great heritage of our people.”
“The task of the judge is to patiently wait for several cases in court. His prayers are always answered.”
“The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.”
“The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.”
“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.”
Source: Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
“The task of the modern individual is to move appropriately and effectively from disengaged spectator to attentive perceiver in order to slide easily into the social order. The starer, in contrast, is an undisciplined spectator arrested in an earlier developmental stage or one resistant to the attentiveness of the modern networker. The starer is a properly attentive spectator befuddled, halted in mid-glance, mobility throttled, processing checked, network run amuck...So the challenge of proper looking is converting the impulse to stare into attention, which is socially acceptable. (21-22)”
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics