"A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person."

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Source: Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.2, Penguin

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Timothy Keller

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Timothy Keller is a prominent pastor and author known for his influential works on faith, culture, and doubt, particularly 'The Reason for God.'

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