Master of One 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

“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

“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

“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 path to making the greatest impact through our work is the path of less but better, of continually pruning our careers in order to focus on the work we were created to do most exceptionally well for the glory of God and the good of others.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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