Quotes About Work

I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It's a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one who turns the work of his hands into sacrament, into offering. All he makes and all he does are gifts from God, through God, and to God.

In some ways, the whole point of the Exodus was Sabbath. Let my people go, became God's rallying cry, that they might worship me. At the heart of liberty—of being let go—is worship. But at the heart of worship is rest—a stopping from all work, all worry, all scheming, all fleeing—to stand amazed and thankful before God and his work. There can be no real worship without true rest.

The span between life as we intend it and life as we receive it is vast. Our true purpose is worked out in that gap. It is fashioned in the crucible of interruptions.

Concerning Some Recent Criticism of His Work —Glaze and shimmer, luster and gleam; can't he think of anything but all that sheen? —No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

Ultimately, for this process to work, you must choose consistency over every other reason or justification you have for trading. If all of these ingredients are sufficiently present, then regardless of the internal obstacles you find yourself up against, what you desire will eventually prevail.

On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.

if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.

The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right.

work was not supposed to be something you enjoyed but something you endured. If it wasn't hard, it wasn't legitimate. I

Changing any organization for the benefit of the customer is difficult and often lonely work.

The practice continues throughout the country. Immigrants can feel "on the border" almost anywhere in the territory of the U.S., and have been subject to such raids in many Northern cities. The key is surprise and drama, especially sudden unexpected violence, or simply the threat of it, which instills wariness and unease in whole immigrant families as they come to and from work. In

Common practice dictates that overloaded operators should work the same way that built-in operator implementations do.

Because using classes well requires some up-front planning, they tend to be of more interest to people who work in strategic mode (doing long-term product development) than to people who work in tactical mode (where time is in very short supply).

It is both a privilege and a curse of being a writer that throwing yourself into your work so often involves immersing yourself deeper into the exact anxieties and obsessions other people throw themselves into their work to avoid.

Sum and Khatiwada found that youth employment is linked to lower rates of teen pregnancy and reductions in crime, particularly among young men. Simply put, "high rates of idleness among men reduce their work experience and their future earnings potential, thus making criminal activity more attractive."45

When you play each point as it comes, or play each delivery on its own merits, you are doing just that: playing. But when the value of each point or delivery becomes instrumental, what you are doing is work.

What I have never been able to tolerate is the prospect that my few years on earth will be frittered away filling out the form to verify that I filled out the previous form, or worse, toiling in the service of some enterprise that perpetuates the things I hate: war, corporate bullying, bureaucratic hoop-jumping, plunder of nature, and more hours tethered to electronic screens. I was willing to work, but I wanted my work to matter—to repair land and cities, to cultivate peace and justice.

Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death," the priest said. "Just a different choice of weapons.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.