If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts. –Timothy Keller
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Colossians 3:23 — Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.
I Corinthians 10:31 — Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Ephesians 4:1b — …I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
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Prosper our work, O Lord, so that our needs and the needs of all may be met, and there be no complaining in our streets; and even as your Son worked at a trade on earth, so give to all that labor pride in their work, a just reward, and joy both in supplying need and serving you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
—Service Book and Hymnal, 1958, Augsburg Publishing House (adapted).
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