"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. It is to God Almighty – how much we do it does not matter, because He is infinite, but how much love we put in that action. How much we do to Him in the person that we are serving."
— Mother Teresa
Source: Mother Teresa, Nobel Lecture, Oslo, 11 December 1979
Work, purpose
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"He so regulates the knowledge of Himself that He has given signs of Himself, visible to those who seek Him, and not to those who seek Him not. There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition."
— Blaise Pascal
Source: Pensées, §430 (Brunschvicg numbering; tr. W. F. Trotter)
Miracles, seeing, believing
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"What, if for a while thou art called to stand still, yet this is but to renew thy strength for some greater advance in due time. … "Stand still;"—keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward.""
— Charles H. Spurgeon
Source: Morning and Evening, July 24 (Morning)
Confidence, Start
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"View the glory of the other world, as set forth in the map of the Gospel; get thee up into the Pisgah of the promises, and lift up thine eyes northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, and that goodly mountain; behold the Paradise of God, watered with the streams of glory."
— Joseph Alleine
Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted, ch. VII "The Motives to Conversion"
Promise, Kingdom
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"All of us are haunted by the work under the work—that need to prove and save ourselves, to gain a sense of worth and identity. But if we can experience gospel-rest in our hearts, if we can be free from the need to earn our salvation through our work, we will have a deep reservoir of refreshment that continually rejuvenates us, restores our perspective, and renews our passion."
— Timothy Keller
Source: The Meaning of Work
Rest in peace, work
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"I would wish with all my heart that this divine and most excellent gift, music, be praised and commended to everyone. … To man alone, above all other creatures, has speech joined to voice been given, so that he might know that he ought to praise God with both word and music."
— Martin Luther
Source: Preface to Georg Rhau's Symphoniae iucundae (1538), translated from the Latin (WA 50:368–374)