Quotes about Drudgery

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Habit is a great deadener.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision and a task are the hope of the world.

I'd lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.