Quotes about Work
We must discover a source of inner security before we can withstand the insecurities that every life holds. Children are not ready for this, nor are teenagers, nor are young adults. Honest soul work is usually done in the second half of life, although it is forced on some much earlier through imprisonment or family tragedy.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption!
— Richard Sibbes
Knowing your purpose motivates your life. Purpose always produces passion. Nothing energizes like a clear purpose. On the other hand, passion dissipates when you lack a purpose. Just getting out of bed becomes a major chore. It is usually meaningless work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy.
— Rick Warren
It is usually meaningless work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy.
— Rick Warren
Solomon noted that envy is the reason why most people overwork!
— Rick Warren
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
— Kathleen Norris
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.
— James Hayford
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
— AB Simpson