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Gracious Father, too often we base our worth on our performance. We believe if we do well, your love grows, and if we falter, your love lessens. Our God, how far this is from the truth. We confess our...

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while ano...

In modern Western culture we place a high value on work, which is fine, but one of the philosophical assumptions that can come with such values is that we assume that we own what we earn or buy. From ...

If you are a pastor…this one’s for you. Sabbath. So many things have been written. Most of us have taught our people or preached about Sabbath, and underscored how busy people in our churches re...

Finding Grace in Lent The practice of Lent has become a place of grace for me over the last number of years. While some feel that Lent is a failure to recognize that our salvation is rooted in gr...

Looking through the lens of Holy Scripture, human work must be seen first and foremost as value contribution, not economic compensation. We can have a flourishing, fruitful life even if we don’t get a...

Talents have been variously described in interpretation, but the literal meaning of a talent is money. And each disciple has, in fact, been entrusted with a certain amount of money. A talent may also ...

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Unable to value, unable to enjoy.

I recently attended an event sponsored by Compassion International, the International Child Sponsorship Organization. The event was called “Stepping into My Shoes”. The purpose being to show children ...

It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

Since the rise of capitalism, it has been known that capturing someone’s attention could cause him to part with some money.

Nor, indeed, can a man properly be said to save anything, if he only lays it up. You may as well throw your money into the sea, as bury it in the earth. And you may as well bury it in the earth, as in...

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

[A] rock-star preaches capitalism. Wow. Sometimes I hear myself and I just can’t believe it. But commerce is real. . . . Aid is just a stopgap. Commerce—entrepreneurial capitalism—takes more people ou...

I lust after recognition, I am desperate to win all the little merit badges and trinkets of my profession, and I am of less real use in this world than any good cleaning lady.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

First and foremost, work is not about economic exchange, financial remuneration, or a pathway to the American Dream, but about God-honoring human creativity and contribution. Our work, whatever it is,...

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it!

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Hence, whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

"Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”