Vocation, not a Profession. (Two other items also)

Fri, 6 Dec 1996

Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 323 Holy Orders is a vocation from God; it is not a profession which we enter expecting an advance, or some sort of recognition as a right after so many years of work. But it is rather the giving up of self into the hands of God, without stint and without reserve, and letting Him set the work. It is the recognition of the fact that God has many kinds of work to be done, and that the best paid are not always the most honourable. To enter or exercise the ministry with a view to preferment is like marrying for money and not for love. - Edwin C Newbolt ........ The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth. - Malcolm Muggeridge ........ Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know. - Edwin Markham ________________________________ From Christian Quotation of the Day Compilation Copyright, 1996, Robert McAnally Adams, Curator E-mail: curator@gospelcom.net CQOD Archive: http://www.gospelcom.net/cqod ____________________________ Clergy/Leaders' Mailing List (Moderated) This mailing list is open to all Christians via Internet e-mail and most fax destinations. Submissions welcome: clergy@pastornet.net.au To unsubscribe, e-mail to: clergy-request@pastornet.net.au with SUBJECT reading UNSUBSCRIBE Copyright: Postings may be re-sent ONLY with all copyright notifications intact. A PastorNET ministry: manager@pastornet.net.au

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