Quotes about Labor

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.

Patience is not simply "teeth-clenched" endurance. It is an attitude of expectation. The farmer patiently watches his barren ground because he knows there will be results. He has patience in his labors because there will be products of his labor. So it is in the spiritual realm. God knows the final product of what is happening to us, and He would have us link patience to our faith. Ask God for the gift of patience—and then use it.

We are to till the soil and work the land—not worship it.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

Real Christians accept suffering as a normal part of following Christ, just as mothers accept labor as a normal part of delivering a baby. "No pain, no gain" applies to world evangelism as well as exercise programs! Until we can accept suffering, sacrifice and self-denial as routine and normal, we will never see the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.