 Your actions, in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors |
| The church is made up of individuals. It can do nothing except as its members work, and work together. Author: James H. Aughey |
| A work with the Blessing of God upon it should be our normal work. Author: Watchman Nee |
| To inaugurate a work is no small matter. Christians should never initiate anything presumptuously on the basis of need, profit, or merit. These may not indicate God's will in the slightest. Author: Watchman Nee |
| The Holy Spirit moves people themselves to work, never setting aside man's personality; the evil spirit demands men to be entirely inactive so that he may work in their place, reducing man's spirit to a robot. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up. Author: Watchman Nee |
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| The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! Labor is life. Author: Thomas Carlyle |
| In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ. Author: William Gurnall |
| And when God comes to reckon with his workmen, the ploughman and the sower shall have his penny, as well as the harvest-man and the reaper. Author: William Gurnall |
| To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine. Author: William Booth |
