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Work is not a curse, it is a blessing from God who calls man to rule the earth and transform it, so that the divine work of creation may continue with man’s intelligence and effort.

Pope John Paul II

Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a ‘working God’.

Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson

He who turns up his nose at his work quarrels with his bread and butter.

Charles Spurgeon

When God put Adam and Eve in the garden, He did not put them there to sit and look at each other and to hold hands. He said they were to take care of the garden. You remember that—they were given something to do. Some people believe that work is a result of the curse, but that’s not true. The idea is abroad that the man who works is a boob, and that work is only for fools—but God made us to work.2

A. W. Tozer

Men were created to employ themselves in some work, and not to lie down in inactivity and idleness.

John Calvin

Throw your soul into the work as if your one employer were the Lord!

Richard C. H. Lenski

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work is always healthier for us than idleness; it is always better to wear out shoes than sheets.

John Ploughman’s Talk, Page 128

Charles Spurgeon

He who wishes to eat in the evening must be willing to work earlier in the day.

Anonymous

6762 Idleness: the devil’s pillow.

Anonymous

Idleness is the mother of want.

Anonymous

Idleness tempts the devil to tempt.

Thomas Watson

Religion gives no warrant for idleness … a Christian must mind not only heaven, but his calling.

Thomas Watson

Ezekiel 16:49 tells us that one of the sins of Sodom was an “abundance of idleness.”

John G. Butler