# Quote — John J. McNeill, Taking a Chance on God

> One's whole life can be caught up in this attitude with the result that the quality of life is destroyed. The high-school student waits for graduation; the college student waits for graduate school; the graduate student waits for a job; the worker waits for a vacation; the vacationer waits to go back to work; the veteran worker waits for retirement. Our whole life can be spent waiting for what comes next. Then death intervenes and in a way it can be said that we never really existed, because we never found time to do something for its own sake; that is to say, we never played.

- Author: [John J. McNeill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-j-mcneill.md)
- Book: [Taking a Chance on God](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-j-mcneill/taking-a-chance-on-god.md)
- Page: 114
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_J._McNeill#Taking_a_Chance_on_God_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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