Quotes About Work

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." There

Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

Slavery ruined the "industry of our White People," he confessed, for they saw a "Rank of Poor Creatures below them," and detested the thought of work out of a perverse pride, lest they might "look like slaves.

Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted!

One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

We have to have faith as if everything depends on God, while we work hard as if everything depends on us.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

When God redeems us, He releases us from the guilt and power of sin, and restores us to our full humanity, so that we can once again carry out the tasks for which we were created. Because of Christ's redemption on the cross, our work takes on a new aspect as well- it becomes a means of sharing in His redemptive purposes. In cultivating creation, we not only recover our original purpose, but also bring a redemptive force to reverse the evil and corruption introduced by the fall.

No matter how hard people work to suppress their knowledge of God, creation itself keeps challenging them. "Human life is a continual wrestling match with God and his created order," writes Thomas Johnson. 14

All human endeavors depend on God's common grace.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. —George Bernard Shaw, Candida

It is easy—terribly easy—to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Even late marriage and childbirth didn't seem to deter this new young population of women from continuing to hold down paid jobs.

Motherhood, as our nation, has always know it, was being practiced in a bold new way, preempted by the priority of the regular paycheck.

The Lord might work in mysterious ways he told himself, but human beings performed untold evils. - Dr. Christopher Logan

The atmosphere was so dull, the cactus I brought into work died. I was certain it died of boredom.

In the average home there is much work to be done, and God does not approve of laziness. But beware thinking that your schedule (whether it is a homeschooling schedule or feeding-the-baby schedule) is inspired by the Holy Spirit. Life in our homes should be characterized by joy and thanksgiving so that children are taught and nourished in a way that takes their souls into account.

Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.

Never keep someone on a job who likes it too much. She knows when she sees the single flash of that gleeful and hungry face that they're not here to raid for what they can find. They're not here for anything that can be given.

every measure of talent brings with it nine measures of work.

Well, apparently addressing racial inequality in one's work is un-American, so I was hauled before the committee.