Doug Vos

“we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

“The material creation was made by God to be developed, cultivated, and cared for in an endless number of ways through human labor. But even the simplest of these ways is important. Without them all, human life cannot flourish.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society.”
― Os Guinness, The Call

“It (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing.”
― Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World