“There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.” SoulChristianPowerHolyCallingLowsMarkCommandTendenciesObedienceEmpiresSpheresReverenceQuietnessBaptizedBaptized In Author:James Martineau
“The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.” MenWorldWayArtDifferentChristianFormUsedDiesIndividualNaturalModernCallingDiedTransformationFacultyIndividualismTransformedConquestNatural WorldPietyRenaissanceOutside WorldGreat ChristianChristian Art Author:Andre Malraux
“Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.” LittlesChristianYoungChurchCallingBoredAdulthood Author:Alan Hirsch
“When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.” PeopleChristianChurchFailingCallingNotionChristian Faith Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.” MeanChristianCallingBlessingRosaryHoly RosaryPraying The RosaryRecitation Author:Pope Pius XII
“I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.” KnowsI CanReasonSchoolChristianCallingAtheistSpiteNeverthelessDispositionJustifiedOrthodoxyAtheisticInfidelAntipathy Author:Thomas Huxley