“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.” MenWorldYearsTwoWorkCitiesHe ManSorrowEternalStandardsLaborCrossesLonelyWanderThirtyShopsVillageAgonyHomelessObscureSuccess And FailureShamefulCarpenterTrue Life Author:Frederic Farrar
“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.” ChildrenHas BeensHouseRaceFineSorrowEqualLaborTablesEmbraceIllIsraelCurseFallenLockedAdversariesLamentFervorImpartiality Author:John L. Lewis
“Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!” WorldHeartCareLyingWaitingSinSorrowPureLaborIllWoePettyWeepingPillowSlumberResoluteSirensStoutVexationWeeping Willows Author:Frances Sargent Osgood
“Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!” LifeLooksChildrenHopeRoomsMastersSorrowLaborPreparedYesterdayFasterHeirsMorrowWeaving Author:Mary Lasswell
“This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second nature, so that converse with God becomes inextricably and wonderfully woven into the fabric of our lives.” FirstsJoyDesirePrayerOur LivesSorrowConsciousLaborEverydayConversionFabricWovenConverses Author:Sheila Cassidy
“For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.” MenNightRaceSorrowLaborCeaseLabourIronMortalityPerishing Author:Hesiod
“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.” IfsMenLittlesSoulJoyForceHe ManArmsSorrowHundredConscienceLaborWorkersShedTranquilityThoroughSulky Author:William Wilberforce
“The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?” ThinkingLittlesLongSelfLove IsSelf LoveSorrowLaborHeavyLoyalInward Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the cause of salvation and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the coming of the Son of Man. The only difference is, while we are here we are subject to pain and sorrow, while they on the other side are free from affliction of every kind.” IfsMenKindPainCausesSidesDifferencesWorkSubjectsSonSorrowLaborSalvationAfflictionVeilsPain And Sorrow Author:Wilford Woodruff