Written by Pastor Jack Wellman17 Powerful Quotes about Doing Your Best
Work – no, it’s not a four-letter word! The Bible has a lot to say about working hard. This has nothing to do with working to earn God’s love or salvation – it’s about doing your best to bring glory to God. We all get a feeling of satisfaction and joy after a productive day or doing our best on a project. Be inspired by these quotes and verses about working hard and doing your best!
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them.
- Tim Keller
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."
- A.T. Pierson
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
- Psalm 90:17
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
- Colossians 3:17
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Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.
- Proverbs 16:3
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God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!
- Chip Ingram
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Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
- William Booth
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
- George Macdonald
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
- Chuck Swindoll
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I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
- Philippians 4:13
