Quotes about Work

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

The gift of discernment simply gives you the ability to distinguish what spirit or spirits are at work in a person or an environment.

Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.