“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsWellsKindMadeAmericaFatherCircumstancesActivityOfficeGood ThingsPostsEmployeeModestPost Office Author:David Rubenstein
“Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.” Would BeFatherGoalInterestCareersStudyActivityDecidedMedicineUniversityProfession Author:Frederick Sanger
“It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.” SoulDesireFatherChristPrayerActivityDirectOnenessPermitHis LoveApostolic Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.” ThinkingKnowsFactsSpiritFatherCausesKnowingCreationDivineHairActivityEternalIntellectualResponseDaydreaming Author:Robert Farrar Capon