Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

by Timothy J. Keller

thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person

Without meaningful work we sense significant inner loss and emptiness. People who are cut off from work because of physical or other reasons quickly discover how much they need work to thrive emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

The loss of work is deeply disturbing because we were designed for it.

Freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, those that fit with the realities of our own nature and those of the world.32