Quotes about Work

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God.

But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

God will render to every man according to his work. "Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all" (Jude 1:14, 15).

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.