Jordan Raynor > Quotes

“You and I are called to reflect God’s greatness and imitate his character to the world.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“Stress comes from unkept agreements with yourself”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“But in our experience, the things that matter the most are the things that are the hardest and least fun to do.”
― Jordan Raynor, Startup Stories: Lessons Learned from a Startup's Launch, Grind, and Growth

“The Zeigarnik effect is brought on by things we know we need to do but that we’ve failed to get out of our heads.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“Clearly, the advice of making our happiness the primary aim of our work isn’t working. For the Christian, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Why? Because this advice is out of line with Jesus’s example to serve rather than be served.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“As we’ve seen, boredom doesn’t come naturally for us in the twenty-first century, so we have to intentionally develop the skill of being bored.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“I began working hard and not neglecting my responsibilities. It’s easy for me to push my duties aside if I don’t want to do them, but my growth in the Lord showed me that a man after God’s heart does hard things.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“The world is constantly pressuring us to be more like Martha than Mary, convincing us that the path to happiness and impact is the path of more—more jobs, more skills, more responsibility, more information, more fun, and more money. But here Jesus offers us a better, simpler, saner way. He offers us the path of less but better: “Few things are needed…indeed only one.” In a world full of Marthas, let us allow Jesus’s words to permeate every aspect of our lives, especially our work. Instead of scattering our gifts and energy in a million different directions, let us seek the one vocational thing we believe the Father has given us to do and then master that work for his glory and the good of others.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“The mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“As Christian entrepreneurs, we should be asking God to show off so much. We should ask him for big things so he can blow our expectations out of the water and get the glory from us and those around us.”
― Jordan Raynor, Called to Create: A Biblical Invitation to Create, Innovate, and Risk

“If you are a craftsman you will find the Bible placed in your workshop, in your hands, in your heart; it teaches and preaches how you ought to treat your neighbor. Only look at your tools, your needle, your thimble, your beer barrel, your articles of trade, your scales, your measures, and you will find this saying written on them…“use me toward your neighbor as you would want him to act toward you with that which is his.” MARTIN LUTHER”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy,”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“And because we did nothing to earn his grace, there is nothing we can do to lose it.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“the good news of the gospel is not just that I get to go to heaven when I die but that I get to partner with God in revealing heaven on earth until I die.”
― Jordan Raynor, The Sacredness of Secular Work: 4 Ways Your Job Matters for Eternity

“for way too long we have been sold the pervasive lie that we can be anything we want to be.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“Renowned British novelist Dorothy Sayers wrote, “Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”[4] In short, work isn’t just work. Work is abad. Work is worship. Worship well today!”
― Jordan Raynor, The Word Before Work: A Monday-Through-Friday Devotional to Help You Find Eternal Purpose in Your Daily Work

“We live surrounded by darkness in a world that is desperate for something excellent and true. There is perhaps no more influential sphere of life for us to shine the light of Christ than in our chosen work.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“What about the product or process of your work is creating a craving in others that will only be fully satisfied in Christ?”
― Jordan Raynor, Five Mere Christians: Binge-Worthy Biographies That Show You How to Glorify God in Your Work

“Not one, but two callings. The original calling—to rule over the earth. To make culture. And a new calling—to make disciples…. The new calling to make disciples does not negate or cancel out the original calling”
― Jordan Raynor, The Sacredness of Secular Work: 4 Ways Your Job Matters for Eternity

“Christ.” Renowned British novelist Dorothy Sayers wrote, “Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”[4] In short, work isn’t just work. Work is abad. Work is worship. Worship well today!”
― Jordan Raynor, The Word Before Work: A Monday-Through-Friday Devotional to Help You Find Eternal Purpose in Your Daily Work

“You never learn anything spiritually valuable by being told. You have to be shown.”
― Jordan Raynor, Minister Rogers' Neighborhood: How Fred Rogers Glorified God in His Work—and How You Can Do the Same

“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”[”
― Jordan Raynor, The Sacredness of Secular Work: 4 Ways Your Job Matters for Eternity

“started to look behind the things that people did and said and…after a lot of sadness, I began a lifelong search for what is essential, what it is about my neighbor that doesn’t meet the eye.”9”
― Jordan Raynor, Minister Rogers' Neighborhood: How Fred Rogers Glorified God in His Work—and How You Can Do the Same

“Jesus understood his purpose, and that allowed him to take the long list of things he could do and pare it down to the things he knew he should do to finish the work the Father gave him to do (see John 17:4).”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“the advice of making our happiness the primary aim of our work isn’t working.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“When you and I pursue mastery of our chosen work, we fulfill our call to be the salt of the earth.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“Notice that, in summarizing the Greatest Commandments, Jesus didn’t say, “Love your neighbor as yourself…so that you can share the gospel,” or “Love your neighbor as yourself…in order to obtain cultural influence.” “Love your neighbor as yourself” was a complete sentence. Simply loving our neighbor is good and God-honoring in and of itself and is the foundational purpose for focused, masterful work, as well as the most fundamental way we make ourselves useful to the world.”
― Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do

“In the words of the great preacher Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “A Christian is something before he does anything.”32”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“prioritizing daily time with the Author of time is one of the primary ways we can demonstrate our devotion to the Lord.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“working to earn someone’s favor is exhausting, but working in response to unconditional favor is intoxicating.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive