Month: February 2016

No man has a right to be idle. . . . [W]here is it in such a world as this that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

—William Wilberforce

HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

—John Wesley

HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman

There is another that has made you, and preserves you, and provides for you, and on whom you are dependent: and He has made you for himself, and for the good of your fellow-creatures, not only for yourself.

—Jonathan Edwards

HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman

When we are driven by the gospel, we act in God’s power and work for the peace and prosperity of everyone (Jer. 29:4-7). And God’s call on us is to do this through all kinds of work, not just ministry work.

—Matt Perman

HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman

Aimless, unproductive Christians contradict the creative, purposeful, powerful, merciful God we love.

—John Piper

HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman