We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that while we may face periods of unemployment, our purpose and calling in life remain intact.
Os Guinness suggests that even during challenging times such as unemployment, individuals retain a sense of purpose or 'calling' that defines their identity and potential. This statement uplifts the notion that our intrinsic value and abilities are not diminished by external circumstances, encouraging us to seek and fulfill our true vocation regardless of temporary setbacks.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about finding their passions despite career challenges.
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
Some injuries heal more quickly if you keep moving.
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.
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