While doing some research on the idea of “work as worship,” I found these insightful nuggets from a handful of Puritan authors. (For those of you in the RDU area, don’t forget to register for our Gospel at Work conference, which will help you think biblically about your work.)
“Be laborious and diligent in your callings… and if you cheerfully serve [God] in the labour of your hands, with a heavenly and obedient mind, it will be as acceptable to him as if you had spent all that time in more spiritual exercises.” Richard Baxter
“Choose that employment or calling … in which you may be most serviceable to God. Choose not that in which you may be most rich or honourable in the world.” Richard Baxter
“Christians should so spiritualize our hearts and affections that we may have heavenly hearts in earthly employments.” Thomas Gouge
“If God be God over us, he must be over us in every thing.” Peter Bulkeley
“Have you forgot … the milkhouse, the stable, the barn, and the like, where God did visit your soul?” John Bunyan
“It is in your shops where you may most confidently expect the presence and blessing of God.” Richard Steele
“The main end of our lives is to serve God in the serving of men in the works of our callings.” William Perkins
