#usefulness

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit. (pg. 312, Christianity and the Survival of Creation) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #excellence #god #nature #respect

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#besides #destroyed #friends #here #man

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. ↗

— David F. Houston

#country #food #human #only #recently

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#bend #direction #like #lose #men

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#early #law #parallel #politics #roads

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. ↗

— Ovid

#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

Love comes into being through useful service to others. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#love #service #swedenborg #usefulness #inspirational

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#aware #benefits #derives #i #i am

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#number #people #present #rises #square