LABOR
Work is always healthier for us than idleness; it is always better to wear out shoes
than sheets. PP128
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands,
there’s plenty of soap to be had. PT142
God sends every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest: he gives us our
daily bread, but it is through our own labour. PT143
To live a life of comparative ease and enjoyment shames me. To work to weariness
seems nothing. After all, what are we doing compared with what he has done? 1128.479
Man was not made for an idle life, labour is evidently his proper condition. Even
when man was perfect he was placed in the garden, not to admire its flowers, but to
keep it and to dress it. If he needed to work when he was perfect, much more does he
require the discipline of labour now that he is fallen. 1670.398
Amongst the sanitary and salutary regulations of the moral universe there is none
much better than this—that men must work. 1948.99
The religion of mere brain and jaw does not amount to much. We want the religion of
hands and feet. 2195.163
God sent the manna from heaven; but the people had to go out every morning, and
get it in; and when they had gathered it, we read that they used to beat it in mortars,
or grind it in mills, and bake it in pans, and make it into cakes. God is not the patron
of idleness. 2332.523
We cannot have any drones; we must have all working bees in the hive. I think it
would be a good resolution for the Tabernacle to expel every member that is not
doing something or other for the Lord Jesus Christ. 3551.82