Quotes About Work

Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it

Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood," she said.

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

Traffic heading south through Manhattan was horrible, even with NYPD motorcycle escorts. The gridlock was such that there was nowhere for them to go. Nothing to do but wait for the clots to work themselves through.

Ni hablar de que mi madre fuera al liceo. Rindió y obtuvo su certificado de estudios, lo que le provocó —y aún le provoca— un gran orgullo, e inmediatamente después la "ubicaron como mucama". En efecto, apenas cumplían los catorce años, la institución ponía a trabajar a los niños que estaban a su cargo: los varones en una granja (fue el caso de su hermano mayor) y las niñas como empleadas domésticas.

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.

Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the "religious." The world had crept into the very heart of the monastic life, and was once more making havoc. The monk's attempt to flee from the world turned out to be a subtle form of love for the world.

In the world God wills work, marriage, government, and church, and God wills all these, each in its own way, through Christ, toward Christ, and in Christ. God has placed human beings under all these mandates, not only each individual under one or the other, but all people under all four. There can be no retreat, therefore, from a "worldly" into a "spiritual" "realm." The practice of the Christian life can be learned only under these four mandates of God.

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

The wasted time we are ashamed of, the temptations we succumb to, the weakness and discouragement in our work, the disorder and lack of discipline in our thinking and in our dealings with other people—all these very frequently have their cause in our neglect of morning prayer.

But it is the grace of the Gospel, which is so hard for the pious to understand, that it confronts us with the truth and says: You are a sinner, a great, desperate sinner; now come, as the sinner that you are, to God who loves you. He wants you as you are; He does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; He wants you alone.

Work is only an instrument in the hand of God for the purification of Christians from all self-centeredness and self-seeking. The work of the world can be done only where a person forgets himself, where he loses himself in a cause...

There is such a thing as a false composure which is quite unchristian. As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God.

To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.

Mari sunt satisfac?iile unei vie?i laborioase, a?ezate ?i lini?tite, dar ?i mai mare este atrac?ia abisului.

Grandi sono le soddisfazioni di una vita laboriosa, agiata e tranquilla, ma ancora più grande è l'attrazione dell'abisso.

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in man's image is a figure of doom.

Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.

I used to work in a Fotomat booth. Talk about the world's worst office Christmas party. I sat in a mall parking lot with a punchbowl and a candy cane.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.