Work and Calling on Miscellanea

Plod!

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

If I could engrave a single word on the heart of every young man with his life before him, it would be the short and homely word— Plod!

That is the secret of success. If you expect to accomplish any results of value in your manhood you must make up your mind to ‘scorn delights and live laborious days’ in your youth.

The Crowd and Hurry of Earthly Business

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

And yet do not be so intent upon your particular callings as to make them interfere with your general calling.

Beware you do not lose your God in the crowd and hurry of earthly business.

Farm Work

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Our problem today is that we picture farm work from the vantage point of never having done it.

The Value of a Good Living

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I would assume congratulate a man upon seeing a millstone tied about his neck, to sink him into the depths of the sea, as upon his obtaining what is called a good living, except I thought him determined to spend and be spent in the cause of the Gospel.

The Fate of the Country

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Little Necessary Things

Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Religion does not consist in doing great things, for which few of us have frequent opportunities, but in doing the little necessary things of daily occurrence with a cheerful spirit, as to the Lord.

Scientific Delusion

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

The Huge Task of Mothering

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? … I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

Plutarch on Pursuit of Money and Children

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Good people, what are you after? Why in such deadly earnest about making money, while troubling so little about the sons to whom you are to leave it?’

Seven Days to Make a Living

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Employment Outside the Home

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I do not belive that ’employment outside the home’ is as valuable or important or satisfying as employment at home, for either men or women.