Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.