As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.
Asmodeus! You don’t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of us? No? Good. I’m leaving now unless Minor Master has another preferably nonpainful task for me. (Asmodeus) You're dismissed. (Jericho) Cool beaners. (Asmodeus)
People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.
In life, you should seek the help you need. Do not depend on your own strength alone. You have never done all you can to finish a task until you have sought help from the Lord.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances. ' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
Our task is to create memes. . . Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised.
Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.
Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass. . . if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass. . . slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own. . . structure.
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new. . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.