Quotes About Work

God's work in us does not eliminate our work; it enables it. We work because he is the one at work in us. Therefore, the fight for joy is possible because God is fighting for us and through us.

will think of the Lord in what we are doing at work. We will ask, Why would the Lord like this done? How would the Lord like this done? When would the Lord like this done? Will the Lord help me do this? What effect will this have for the Lord's honor? Being a Christian at work means radically Lord-centered living.

I am immortal till Christ's work for me to do is done.

God's work does not make our work unnecessary; it makes it possible.

It is crucial that we realize that grace in Paul's vocabulary is not just a divine disposition to pardon sin. It is also a divine power to work in us all that God requires from us.

Be sure that you live not idly, but in some constant business of a lawful calling, so far as you have bodily strength. Idleness is a constant sin, and labour is a duty. Idleness is but the devil's home for temptation, and for unprofitable, distracting musings. Labour profiteth others and ourselves; both soul and body need it. - Richard Baxter

Fear not. Whether you live or die, you will be with me. And in the meantime, while you live, nothing will happen to you—nothing!—that I do not appoint. If I decide, you will live. If I decide, you will die. And until you die at my decision, I will decide if you do this or that. Get to work." This is my Rock—for today, tomorrow, and eternity.

Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.

It shows how Christ-exalting the Holy Spirit is. He will not do his sanctifying work by the use of his direct divine power. He will only do it by making the glory of Christ the immediate cause of it. This is the way he works in evangelism, and this is the way he works in sanctification

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

The al Qaeda War Manual, discovered by British police in a raid on an al Qaeda safe house, and translated from Arabic, lists "Patience" as one of the 14 qualifications for membership in the Jihadist organization. "He should be patient in performing the work, even if it lasts a long time.

Tens of millions of laborers across the world will be quickly thrown out of work, with all that will entail for their national economies. The world's financial superpower, which made the merchants of the world "rich through her wealth" (Revelation 18:19), will one day, in a day, no longer be buying their goods.

"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel"

When employees hold the same core beliefs and values, you need fewer policies to control or manage work. Instead, your employees have an innate ability to deliver solutions and customer service that match your desired culture.

Gifts are free. If you work for a gift, it is no longer a gift. Gifts in the truest sense are undeserved. If we feel we deserve it, then it ceases to be a gift and becomes an award. The eternal life God gives us is truly a gift because we don't deserve it in any way.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

A woman always has her children, but a man is what he does. Where's the meaning in a life like that?

In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy."

Money is whatever symbol we decide upon to represent human energy for an item or service."

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.