 The Protestant work ethic finds its application in many contexts in the twenty-first century. Perhaps the most obvious is the phenomenon of 'faith based activism': religious groups using their faith both as a platform and a guiding principle for social engagement and voluntary work. Author: Alister McGrath |
| Do not confound work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christ that is not the fruit of the heavenly Vine. Author: Andrew Murray |
| Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work. Author: Andrew Murray |
| Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet. Author: Elisabeth Elliot |
| The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less. Author: Charles Hodge |
| A believer does not perform good works to live - but he lives to perform good works.|The Consistent Christian, 1660. Author: William Secker |
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| It is a greater glory to us that we are allowed to serve God, than it is to him that we offer him that service. He is not rendered happy by us; but we are made happy by him. He can do without such earthly servants; but we cannot do without such a heavenly Master. Author: William Secker |
| Are we not all immortal till our work is done? Author: Robert Murray McCheyne
Source: Comfort in Sorrow |
| Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good. Author: Stephen Charnock
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God. Author: William Law |
| Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other. Author: William Booth
Source: The Founder's Messages to Soldiers, Christianity Today, October 5, 1992, p. 48. |
| Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. Author: Corrie Ten Boom |
