Quotes about Activity

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

The grand essential to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The saints, however, are in silence and patience and in hope (spes), not in physical activity (res), like those people, for they are saved by the name of the Lord. This does not come about except in hope and patience and silence, whereas the ungodly seek to be saved in bustle and physical activity (res), indeed by the vanity of physical activity.

rest from our activities is listed in God's Top Ten. The commandment to keep the Sabbath is right up there with "don't kill," "don't steal," and "don't commit adultery." In other words, being a workaholic is, to God, just as bad as being a murderer or adulterer.

In other words, precisely because the ultimate goal is ... the redemption of the whole creation, our calling is to live in our bodies now in a way which anticipates the life we shall live then. Marital fidelity echoes and anticipates God's fidelity to the whole creation. Other kinds of sexual activity symbolize and embody the distortions and corruptions of the present world

There, again and again, we find the New Testament writers emphasizing instead love, agap?, as the highest activity, the one that binds everything else together-

It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity.