Quotes about Role

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

When humans take up their divinely appointed role, looking after God's world on his behalf, this is not a Promethean attempt to usurp God's role. It is the humble, obedient carrying out of the role that has been assigned. The real arrogance would be to refuse the vocation, imagining that we know better than God the purpose for which we have been put here.

humans finding themselves called to play a vital role in the larger purposes of the creator for the creation.

what we notice in Mark 10 is something which seems to operate in a different dimension. For a start, it is a call, not to specific acts of behavior, but to a type of character. For another thing, it is a call to see oneself as having a role to play within a story—and a story where, to join up with the

For the church to be the church—not just a place where you can find ministry but where the people are a ministering community—every believer must accept his or her role in the life of every other believer.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

What are the facts of history? And do they matter? The importance of this study is more than historical. Establishing that George Washington was a Christian helps to substantiate the critical role that Christians and Christian principles played in the founding of our nation.

But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

If there ever was a time when character mattered, it was in Washington's role in the birth of America. If he had operated with a different set of moral values and a different personal character, America would have had a king or dictator instead of a federal Constitution and representative government.