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Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace' (Eph. 17), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus' (Eph. 27).

– Cornelius Stam

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

– Henri Matisse

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

– Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

– Sister Mary Lauretta

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

– Samuel Butler

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

– Frederick E. Crane

To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

– Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

– Young

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

– Henry J. Kaiser

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

– Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

– I Ching

We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach.

– Frances Hasselbein

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

– George Whitefield

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

– Abraham Maslow

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

– Charles Baudelaire

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

– John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

– Albert E. Cliffe

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them.

– John F. Welch

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

– Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

– Maria Montessori

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.

– Winston Churchill

What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god

– William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

– William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

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