Quotes About Work

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

If we are indeed created in God's image, then we, too, must create and then we, too, must rest.

I'm two decisions away from putting up drywall for a living. I am, and there's nothing wrong with that, but whatever I got, it's through the grace of God, and I've got to use it right.

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard."

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

While you are serving someone else, God is working out your future

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.