"If you are called to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great sweeper who did his job well." -Martin Luther King, …
Rabbi Arthur Green
"Shabbat is needed now more than ever. We Jews should be missionary about Shabbat. It may be the best gift we have to offer the world." -Rabbi Arthur Green, Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Hebrew College (Boston) …
Pope John Paul II
"In the first place work is “for man” and not man “for work." -Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) …
Miroslav Volf
"The purpose of a theology of work is to interpret, evaluate, and facilitate the transformation of human work. It can fulfill this purpose only if it takes the contemporary world of work seriously." -Miroslav Volf (born 1956) …
Jürgen Moltmann
"The theologian is not concerned merely to supply a different interpretation of the world, of history and of human nature, but to transform them in expectation of divine transformation." -Jürgen Moltmann (born 1926) …
Karl Barth
"Can man view and tackle his own work under the command of God without first, as the same command of God enjoins, pausing, resting and keeping holy-day in the sight of God, rejoicing in freedom?" -Karl Barth (1886–1968) …
John Calvin
"Even the artisan with the humblest trade is good at it only because the Spirit of God works in him. For though these gifts are diverse, they all come from the one Spirit; it pleased God to distribute them to each one." -John Calvin (1509–1564) …
Martin Luther
"All works are of equal value." -Martin Luther (1483–1546) …
Thomas Aquinas
"On the other hand, the active life is more directly concerned with the love of our neighbor, because it is busy about much serving (Luke x. 40). " -Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) …
Augustine of Hippo
"Paul the Apostle enjoins and beseeches you in the Lord, that with silence, that is, quietly and obediently ordered, ye do work and eat your own bread." -Augustine of Hippo (354–430) …