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Nay you deceive the very man for whose good word you look; for he thinks you do it for God’s sake, otherwise he would rather reproach than commend you. Yet must we think him only to have done his work because of men, who does it with his whole will and intention governed by the thought of them.
God opens doors and grants favor to men and women with this type of work ethic. Here are three key practices for developing one’s productivity in the workplace. First, don’t settle for mediocrity.
Therefore, good works are the fruits of faith and the evidence of its presence, and with such, faith is perfected. Good works, however, are not from our volition only. We need the support of God's grace and the work of the Holy Spirit within us, for Jesus said "Without me ye can do nothing." (John 15:5)
Euripides, in the fragmentary Hippolytus Veiled (before 428 BC), mentions that, "Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid." [5] In his Iphigeneia in Tauris, Orestes says, "I think that Fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his gods strive for him equally."
Thomas Aquinas, in article 6 of question 25 of the first part of his Summa Theologiae, [16] had affirmed that God can always make better what he has made, but only by making more things; "the present creation being supposed, cannot be better."
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or Ad majórem Dei glóriam, [note 1] also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG, is a Latin quote which can be translated as "For the greater glory of God." It has been used as a rallying cry for Catholics throughout history, especially during the Thirty Year's War , and is currently the motto of the Society of Jesus ...
What- ever good work a man undertakes, if he perseveres in it, he will attain rest. But prayer is warfare to the last breath." [1] "I consider the good of my brother to be a sacrificial offering." [1] "A man who is angry, even if he were to raise the dead, is not acceptable to God." [1] A brother asked Abba Agathon about fornication.
The word translated as "love" is Greek: αγαπησει agapēsei. The word mammon was a standard one for money or possessions, and in the literature of the period it is generally not a pejorative term. Frequently Jews were called upon to honour God with their mammon, by making donations.