Quotes about Work
Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
- Edith Stein
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.
- Henri Matisse
Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.
- Jim Elliot
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
- John Calvin
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
- Timothy Keller
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
- St. John Chrysostom
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
- Corrie Ten Boom
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.
- Louise Hay
You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.
- CS Lewis