Top Highlights

• because our disordered hearts crave affirmation and validation, it is just as tempting to be thrust in the opposite direction—making life all about career accomplishment and very little else.
• Many people today have not been given vocabularies to talk about what virtue is, what character consists of, and in which way excellence lies, so they just talk about community service.
• Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God’s calling, can matter forever.
• This view of work—connected with divine, orderly creation and human purpose—is distinct among the great faiths and belief systems of the world.
• No, God worked for the sheer joy of it. Work could not have a more exalted inauguration.