Every Good Endeavor

He didn’t say, ‘If I perish, I perish,’ but ‘When I perish, I’ll perish.

If you get the story of the world wrong...you will get your life responses wrong, including the way you go about your work.

The modern idol of individualism has tended to raise work from being a good thing to being nearly a form of salvation.

For the first time in the history of life, a living species holds the means to destroy the entire planet, and this species does not know where it is going.

The gospel allows us to be at the same time deeply optimistic, envisioning not simply heaven but a perfectly renewed material creation.

Every good and perfect gift is from above...from the Father of the heavenly lights.

Work was part of paradise. It is not simply medicine but food for our soul.

Every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God’s calling, can matter forever.

You will not have a meaningful life without work, but you cannot say that your work is the meaning of your life.

Work of all kinds, whether with the hands or the mind, evidences our dignity as human beings—because it reflects the image of God the Creator in us.

No task is too small a vessel to hold the immense dignity of work given by God.

Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential... we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.

Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God’s assignment to serve others.

God milks the cows through the vocation of the milkmaids.

The way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.

Part of the curse of work in a fallen world is its frequent fruitlessness.

In all our work, we will be able to envision far more than we can accomplish.

Work will be both frustrating and fulfilling, and sometimes—just often enough—human work gives us a glimpse of the beauty and genius that might have been the routine characteristic of all our work.

If you are unwilling to risk your place in the palace for your neighbors, the palace owns you.

You worked with talents you did not earn; they were given to you. You went through doors of opportunity you did not produce; they just opened for you.