But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.
The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.
The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration. They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.
Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, "How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?" I wonder how many of them do?
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Put the uncommon effort into the common task. . . make it large by doing it in a great way.
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.