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"Management consultant Peter Vaill described our situation as 'permanent white water' .... We have tried..." by Dick Richards
"In our organizational activity, we are usually busy maintaining non-anticipating consciousness; splitting work and family..." by Dick Richards
"If you are a baptized Christian, if you have faith in Jesus Christ and try..." by Henry Libersat
"We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried his job." by William Faulkner
"It appears, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself." by Baudelaire
"Yes, work is both good and necessary. It should be pursued with diligence, honesty and..." by Tim Hansel
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what..." by Bud Hancock
"Over-achievers have several things in common: * They are frequently consumed by their careers. * They never..." by Jeff Comment
"Like over achievers, under-achievers also have some distinct traits: * They feel becoming a Christian exempts..." by Jeff Comment
"Our greatest testimony does not necessarily come from our speeches, our thoughts, or our ministries;..." by Jeff Comment
"Initiatives will continue to monitor the labor movement as it organizes the unorganized and the..."
"Initiatives is skeptical about the acclaimed trend toward voluntary simplicity, sustain ability, even personal downsizing......"
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what..." by Booker T. Washington
"I am a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I..." by Stephen Leacock
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but..." by John Ruskin
"Well done is better than well said." by Benjamin Franklin
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." by Thomas Carlyle
"Mother Teresa defines her vow of poverty as "complete freedom from possessions... We are first..." by Mother Teresa
"Mohandas Gandhi was born to an illiterate woman in 1869. Gandhi means 'grocer.' Mahatma means..." by Mohandas Gandhi
"Comparasonitus is a disease of the human spirit that can destroy your self view. It..." by Pete Hammond
"You don't become a good sailor or smooth seas. You cannot climb a smooth mountain...."
"Our tendency to try and live up to other's expectations or trying to always figuring..." by Pete Hammond
"Because God cares for us as we are - struggling, falling repeatedly, detached - and..." by Pete Hammond
"But what is the role of work today as we approach the end of the..." by Bill Pollard
"Too many large organizations today have been crippled by the cancer of bureaucracy and an..." by Bill Pollard
"... But you cannot buy enthusiasm, initiative, or loyalty. You cannot buy devotion of the..." by Bill Pollard
"Before asking somebody to do something, you have to help them be something." by Bill Pollard
"Why do we work so hard to live up to the expectations of others in..." by Pete Hammond
"Today's common use of the word "vocation" suggests gainful employment, pay for services rendered. The..."
"For four years I worked as a litigation attorney in Beverly Hills....there was something fundamentally..." by Heather King
"We are on the path to becoming real when our inner work joins with a..." by Alan Briskin
"Demons try to possess people, to own them. A demonic organization is one that tries..." by Bill Diehl
"Without forsaking faith she said religion would only impede my work." by Jim Forest
"In a section called "Towards a Theology of Work" Foley affirms the following as categories..." by Father Gerald Foley
"The number and success of "yuppies" has been greatly overestimated...Of those 79 million Americans between..." by John C. Raines and Donna C. Day-Lower
"Martin Luther on work in the mid-1500s: 'Your work is a very sacred matter. God..." by Martin Luther
"The father of the Reformed or Presbyterian Christians John Calvin declared in the mid-1500s, 'It..." by John Calvin
"An American Puritan leader Cotten Mather affirmed in the early 1700s, 'A Christian should be..." by Cotton Mather
"In a sad note about the early Jewish departure a Biblical view of daily work,..." by Leland Rykin
"Another sign of the early marginalizing of daily life comes from church historian who said..." by Leland Rykin
"The very influential Puritan writer of the late 1500s is described as follows: William Perkins,..." by Lelend Ryken
"People...may consider a job as nothing more than a business transaction in which one trades..." by Victoria A Rebeck
"We are not, the Sabbath declares, created for endless, grinding toil. We are created for..." by Wm. Willimon
"George MacLeod, founder of the Iona Community in Scotland, often took the job of cleaning..." by Wm. Willimon
"Never does the Bible blame the poor for their poverty. It is the rich who..." by Wm. Willimon
"Wherever grace abounds, usually lawyers do not." by Pete Hammond
"We Americans no longer think much in terms of service to the civitas as a..." by Allan Janssen
"Today's InterVarsity struggles with giving permission, and then accepting, change within its veterans. Growth means..." by Pete Hammond
"[Commenting on the Christian faith, Dorothy Day says,] As a little child the happy peace..." by Dorothy Day
"When we were invited to help during a strike, we went to perform the works..." by Dorothy Day
"All who are involved in Christian ministry will appreciate another piece of advice [Hammond] gave..." by Warren Nelson
"In an organizationally driven environment, what is dominates while what needs to be suffers." by Pete Hammond
"A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production..." by Dorothy L. Sayers
"God is first presented to us in our Scriptures as a worker, a maker.... Work..." by Eugene Peterson
"Dignity is inherent in work. Royalty is inherent in work. A major and essential task..." by Eugene Peterson
"'High office is like a pyramid' says French philosopher d'Albert. 'Only two kinds of animals..." by Diane Booher
"At the beginning of his career Moses had no experience, a criminal past (he'd murdered..." by Diane Booher
"The tentmaking movement is marked by the controversy of 'work vs witness.' The dualism in..."
"...the Second Vatican Council....attracted priests and religious who saw their ministry as arousing the laity..."
"Laying stress upon the importance of work has a greater effect than any other technique..." by Sigmund Freud
"Is training really needed? Is it Biblical? Where has it happened? Doesn't it happen all..." by Robert Banks
"Work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like..." by Fr. Bob Heidenreich
"An 'Expert' is someone 100 miles away from home with an opinion. A 'consultant' is..." by Pete Hammond
""A lot of people can cover their mistakes, but not teachers. Teachers' mistakes grow up..."
"My dad was a traveling sales rep and often put in long hours. One night,..." by Casey J. Scott
"His family had been leaders in community and church for three generations. He was currently..." by Pete Hammond
"Have you learned to listen to the two kingdoms and then discern the difference between..." by Pete Hammond
"Being president is a bit like running a cemetery: Everybody is under you but nobody..." by Bill Clinton
"When it comes to delivering bad news, style counts. So does speed. Like dead fish,..." by Robert Bies
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one and Helen Keller is the other." by Irma Bombeck
"Anytime we think we can find salvation from our hard work, we are in grave..." by Craig Barnes
"Religious communities have reward systems and they tend to affirm some very odd behaviors. Who..." by Pete Hammond
"...Do you know that you've almost insulted me?....Your mind is so closed to my work,..." by Dan Cook'
"If one's practices measures up to one's standards, one's standards are probably too low." by John Leax
"Frogs croak day and night, yet people loath them. But when the cock crows only..." by Meng-Tzu
"'What is capital punishment?' asked the teacher. The son of a businessman answered, `It is..."
"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss..." by Russell H. Ewing
"Psychiatrists say that in the process of thinking, blood is drawn from the feet to..."
"A lion met a tiger as they drank beside the pool. Said the tiger, "Tell..."
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore." by Andre Gide
"Most middle-class Americans tend to: - Worship their work; - Work at their play; and - Play at..." by Gordon Dahl
"You've often heard: - 'Give a man a fish - and he can eat. - Teach him..."
"I don't do any great thing; I do small things with great love." by Mother Teresa
"The eight hour day was first advocated in 1860 by unions such as the machinists..." by Tim Unsworth
"When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" by Ken Blanchard
"Money is a mutual obligation, anchoring psyche to the world. To be free from the..." by R. Grossman
"What production line are you on? Are you on the one that makes good, the..."
"The irony of the times is that some men work hard and save money nowadays..." by Charles Bronson
"The minister cannot lead as the commander-in-chief nor as the clerk of the works nor..." by Wm. F. May
"Andrew Carnegie said during a labor dispute, "...but I am certain that disputes about wages..." by Andrew Carnegie
"Derived from two Greek words, laos (people) and ergon (work), LITURGY, properly understood, is the..." by Anne Rowthorn
"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." by Dag Hammarskjold
"From the 'freedom now' slogans of the Civil Rights Movement to the immediatism evident in..." by William Dyrness
"Your job gives you authority. Your behavior earns you respect." by Irwin Federman
"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking..." by Margot Fonteyn
"People become housebuilders through building houses, harp players by playing the harp. We grow to..." by Aristotle
"The shortest-lived Management fad award in BEST OF BUSINESS Editor's Choice: One Minute Managing -..." by Don Posterski
"In the future there will be a growing number of seniors ministering to communities....In l987..." by Wm. Rademacher
"The root sense of the word 'minister' is to be minor, to be less, to..." by Nelvin Vos
"Work is taken as the evil that must be endured to make leisure possible, or..." by Nelvin Vos
"In the Scriptures the word 'minister' is a verb (a thing done); now it is..." by Nelvin Vos
"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for..." by Phillips Brooks
"On a office clerk's desk: "Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday."" by Rose Tranquillo
"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee..." by Marie O'Connor
"Fred Smith again observes that "the drive for success is really the distorted pursuit of..." by Fred Smith
"The lack of hypocrisy is to keep on striving." by Bud Ipema
"An oft quoted chinese proverb says: "Man who say it cannot be done should not..." by Philip Lee
"If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo..." by Martin Luther King
"Historically there was a sense that work was God given and that our identity was..." by Pete Hammond
"One of God’s judgements against Israel was: ‘They bow down to the work of their..." by Pete Hammond
"We can observe six stages in the evolution of the American work-ethic:
1. Puritan..." by Pete Hammond
"Work is having responsibility for resources in order to benefit others and serve God. This..." by Pete Hammond
"Unless we can make daybreak and daily bread and the creative secrets of labor interesting..."
"Martin Luther on work in the mid-1500s, said, “...[household work] has no appearance of sanctity;..." by Martin Luther
"Nothing gives joy; nothing hurts deeply; relationships to others are superficial and interchangeable; hopes and..." by Dorothee Soelle
"The new spirituality is not limited to people’s private lives; it’s increasingly evident in the..." by Paul Chamberlin
"Work this side of eternity contains an element of hardness. Different jobs demand different muscles..." by Clayton Blackstone
"It is not only prayer that gives God glory, but work. Smiting on an anvil,..." by Gerald Manley Hopkins
"All work is part science, part art. We have come to think of art as..." by Dick Richards
"..work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives..." by Dorothy Sayers
"Yes, work is both good and necessary. It should be pursued with diligence, honesty and..." by Tim Hansel
"Karl Marx aptly notes, ‘The worker in a capitalist society is separated from, and deprived..." by Donaldson and Werhane
"Work is about daily meaning, as well as daily bread. For recognition as well as..." by Studs Terkel
"We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried his job." by William Faulkner
"Work is the natural exercise and function of man.... Work is not primarily a thing..." by Dorothy Sayers
"Work can provide an opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial growth. Good..." by James Autry, President of Meredith Corp’s magazine group
"The conviction of the Christian workman is that every single piece of work he produces..." by William Barclay
"Politics cannot usher in the good society. The pursuit of justice in the public square..." by Bill Wichterman
"Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work becomes inhuman." by Josef Pieper
"Imagining toil and turmoil as sacramental moments is not an easy passage of faith. Yet..."
"There can be intemperance in work just as in drink." by C.S. Lewis
"Regarding tentmaking: Take for example the way in which Sozome speaks of Zeno, who was..." by Paul Stevens
"More on tentmaking. “The fourth Council of Carthage...5lst canon reads: ‘Let a cleric however learned..." by Paul Stevens
"When I hear someone say, ‘I couldn’t work for a corporation with a profit motive..." by Paul Stevens
"Work, then, is not first of all an instrument to gain something else wealth, for..." by John C. Raines and Donna C. Day-Lower
"“Why do we demean daily work as “secular?” The Bible is full of people who..." by Pete Hammond
"An excellent thing is the study of the Torah (1st five books of the OT)..." by Rabbi Gamaliel III
"In Jewish thought, humans are co-creators (shutafim) in the work of the world.... Jewish thinkers..." by Rabbi Bernard Raskas
"...our philosophy / theology of work is strongest when it is rooted in the Biblical..." by David Gill
"In a sad note about the early Jewish departure a Biblical view of daily work,..." by A Jewish scribe in the Jewish Talmud as quoted in Joachim Jeremias
"As Christians we must remind each other time and again of God’s good news for..." by Christy Varney Pierce
"God made the world in seven days, and whenever a human being creates, it is..." by Nicholas Berdyaev
"We are the agents of the Creative Spirit in this world. Real advance in the..." by Evelyn Underhill
"After I became a Christian I wished for a less worldly career; I wondered why..." by Emilie Dietrich Griffin
"In the beginning, work was good.... All this changed when the man and the woman..." by William H. Willimon
"A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with..." by Louis Nizer
"...[who] handles the plow....smith sitting by the anvil....potter sitting at his work... All these rely..." by Eccles. 38:25-32
"Where worship is divorced from work, and God’s presence in the sanctuary from God’s presence..." by Geoffrey Stddert Kennedy
"...Father John Hugo talked of work, ‘That physical work was hard, mental work harder, and..." by Dorothy Day
"The workplace is not just the locale for Christians to witness to the gospel or..." by Greg Ogden
"In the mid-1500s Martin Luther declared, “When a maid cooks and cleans and does other..." by Martin Luther
"In the late 1500s a leading Puritan declared,”The action of the Shepard in keeping sheep...is..." by William Perkins
"As long as we view work as a means for solving problems, we ‘live for..." by Lawrence Bolt
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