Tom Nelson > Quotes

“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.”1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.”
― Tom Nelson, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work

“Difficulties, disappointments, discouragements, and suffering are a part of every work experience, but they need not be seen as obstacles to God’s purposes in our lives.”
― Tom Nelson, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work

“Would it not make sense that God not only wants to join us in our work but to increasingly conform us into greater Christlikeness while we work?”
― Tom Nelson, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work

“We find our vocational sweet spot when our creativity is most unleashed, our passions most engaged, and our work makes the greatest contribution to advancing the mission of the organization or the business where we serve.”
― Tom Nelson

“All too often I viewed my work as an obstacle to my spiritual growth.”
― Tom Nelson, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work