Neighbor: You're not watching the soldiers, Joseph? Joseph: We've seen Romans before. Neighbor: Yes. And we will see them again. [the neighbor examines some boards which have not been assembled] Neighbor: My table is not finished. Where is your son? ...
As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.
You must judge a man by the work of his hands.
A stupid act entails doing the work twice over.
When a woman is not singing, she is not working much either.
The lazy sweat when they eat and complain of the cold when they work.
The day is short and work lasts a long time.
You won't get sick if you have plenty of work.
Work and you will be strong; sit and you will smell.
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
The hand suffers at work, but the mouth still must eat.
Work improves the harvest better than the field itself.
A woman's work is worth more than the talk of a thousand men.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply live in that freedom and let the Spirit do the work of...
The great problems we see in the world today will not be solved by people functioning at half capacity cranking out work they don't care about in order to buy more things that will eventually rust and rot.
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, ju...
Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")
If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.
The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
