Quotes About Work

May I just give you this word? Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action.

And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

You may be very sure that if your sincere intent is to glorify God and bless others in your efforts, and you are not motivated by unloving attitudes, you will see the hand of God move with you as you expectantly do your work. Your part is simply to expect it, watch for it, give thanks as you see it, and, on the basis of your experience, encourage others to do the same.

Our challenge is to fill our hours, minutes, and actions from day to day with the appropriate amount of love for God's creation and creating, and then work to produce more of the good he has put in this world. This is every person's calling.

Brother Lawrence, who was a kitchen worker and cook, remarks. Our sanctification does not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for God's sake which we commonly do for our own…. It is a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times. We are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer.5

Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. In fact, nothing inspires and enhances effort like the experience of grace.

those who understand Jesus and his Father know that provision has been made for them. Their confidence has been confirmed by their experience. Though they work, they do not worry about things "on earth." Instead, they are always "seeking first the kingdom." That is, they "place top priority on identifying and involving themselves in what God is doing and in the kind of rightness [dikaiosune] he has. All

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action.

Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort.

We do all we do in the knowledge that we are working alongside him. Moreover, we do this kind of work hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind and spirit through art and imagination, poetry and song, praise, prayer, and worship. These all help our minds to lay hold of this God, this most lovable being in all of reality.

Sabbath is not a break from work; it is a redefinition of how we work, why we work, and how we create freedom through our work.

Your life is not over, Admiral," the pope whispered. "Your work is not done. This is why God saved you. Your sworn mission is only half complete. You have served country, yes…but you have not yet served God!" Ávila felt like he had been struck by a bullet. "Peace be with you!" the pope proclaimed.

A little extra caffeine this morning. It's gonna be a long day!!

If you became wealthy and would nevertheless spend some of your time doing just what you now do for a living, you are fortunate indeed.

Form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." —

One cannot be exploited or thwarted from nine to five, then come home and feel loving and lovable.

Chi si lamenta della fatica, se sa di lavorare per la conquista della propria libertà?

This is written in miserable doggerel verse. That Defoe should have mistaken it for poetry, and should have prided himself upon it accordingly, is only a proof of how incompetent an author is to pass judgment upon what is good and what is bad in his own work.

I had conjectured that today's children are unintended victims of economic and technological progress, deskilled in EI because their parents spend more time at work than in previous generations, because increased mobility has cut ties to extended family, and because "free" time has become so structured and overorganized.

But amid the din and distraction of work life, poor listening has become epidemic.

Una de las claves para intensificar nuestra conexión con el estado de flujo consiste en sintonizar lo que hacemos con lo que nos gusta, como sucede en el caso de quienes tienen la inmensa fortuna de disfrutar de su trabajo. Las personas con éxito son, independientemente del entorno considerado, las que han sabido dar con esa combinación.

Good work requires enthusiasm, ethics, and excellence.

Para acercar al trabajador desmotivado al estado de flujo es necesario intensificar la motivación y el entusiasmo, evocar una sensación de objetivo y agregar una pizca de presión.