Quotes about Job

Where God through Elihu confronts Job with his audacity, that met my need at the time, causing me to realize and repent of my own accusations against God.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

Indifference is a form of sloth. For one can work hard, as I've always done, and yet wallow in sloth; be industrious about one's job, but scandalously lazy about all that isn't the job. Because, of course, the job is fun. Whereas the non-job---personal relations, in my case---is disagreeable and laborious.

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?

So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

It's all in the day's work.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.