Quotes About Work

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. 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. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done; In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished, patience won; And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall, Ere thou listen, ere thou answer, Turn to Jesus, tell Him all.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.

Retirement: Twice as much husband, half as much pay.

Retirement: statutory senility.

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.