When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
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