Christian Productivity Quotes

No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good - bringing glory to God by doing good to others. ~ Tim Challies

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Good well-being promotes good productivity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christian productivity is unique. Most productivity gurus will encourage you to be as selfish as you need to be, to get rid of anything that doesn't interest or excite you. But as a Christian you know you can do things that do not perfectly fit your mission but still do them out of love for God and with a desire to glorify him. ~ Tim Challies

Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the existing social order... Where is our Christian duty, our Christian aim? We do not know, we cannot say. Yet our ignorance and silence are certainly not due to the fact that the welfare state has made Christian thinking out of date and irrelevant.

The reason we have nothing to say to the contemporary situation is that we have not been thinking about the contemporary situation. We stopped thinking about these things long ago. We stopped thinking Christianly outside the scope of personal morals and personal spirituality. We got into the habit of stepping out of our Christian garments whenever we stepped mentally into the field of social and political life. Becuase the subject was social or political, we left all of our well-tried and well-grounded Christian concepts behind us, and adopted the vocabulary of secularism. We put aside all talk of vocation, or God's providence, or man's spiritual destiny, and instead chattered with the rest about productivity, assembly line psychology, and deployment of personnel. ~ Harry Blamires

. The whole idea of heaven and hell is a perfect illustration of just how the core of Christian doctrine is antithetical to reason, rationality and even life. It elevates ignorance and non-productivity and suppresses creative and innovative thought. One competent scientist is worth more than a thousand evangelists. ~ Al Stefanelli

On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity':
"In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment."
Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137 ~ Marva J. Dawn

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who do not possess the humility to ask real scholars and theologians its difficult questions. There is little doubt that the atheist has the bigger imagination: the first reason is due to his persistent caricatures of what constitutes a Christian; the second because of his belief that most of his questions are actually rhetorical. From this I can infer that, instead of laughing at one another (the Christian at modern atheist immaturity and the modern atheist at Christian stupidity), we would have a better chance at productivity laughing with one another as we all dumb down what we don't understand. ~ Criss Jami

Without a gospel-centered approach to productivity, we can easily fall into a law-based approach to the Christian life that kills our joy and freedom ~ Matt Perman

Symbols of productivity ARE NOT productivity. ~ Richie Norton

Productivity - true productivity - will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon. ~ Tim Challies

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all. ~ Gina Greenlee

Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building. ~ Audrey Moralez

Your future is being created through the actions you take today. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis

Where your attention goes, your time goes ~ Idowu Koyenikan

Stop letting other people hijack your day. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor. ~ Steve McConnell

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity. ~ Timothy Ferriss

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. ~ Shannon Wheeler

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful. ~ Janet Yellen

We strike fatal blows to idleness with our productivity. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Be fearless in releasing the productivity of your time ~ Sunday Adelaja

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. ~ Timothy Ferriss

Ability + efficiency = productivity ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Happiness inspires productivity. ~ Shawn Achor

Knowledge applied is productivity. ~ Peter Drucker

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. ~ Marston James

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two - because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit. ~ Pawan Mishra

Your productivity will double with increase physical activity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your daily actions should be productive ~ Sunday Adelaja

Productivity is the essence of life ~ Sunday Adelaja

The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity ... What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent. ~ Susan Cain

As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity. ~ Junot Diaz

Contrary to popular belief, productivity isn't about how much you can do. It's about whether or not you're doing the right things - the things that matter to your work and to you. And that means starting small with what you know matters to you. ~ Melissa Steginus

Well, reading Twitter's a lot like staring at an ant farm," Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. "Except without all the productivity. ~ Wayne Gladstone

It's been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best. ~ Bill Gates

You will boost your productivity with active exercise. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind. ~ Robin Sharma

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth. ~ Corinne Maier

The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work. ~ William E. Conway, Jr.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. ~ Maria Popova

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. ~ Alan Watts

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Activity leads to productivity! ~ Jim Rohn

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ~ Franz Kafka

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. ~ Steve Jobs

When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear
minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity. ~ Angela Lynne Craig

As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort. ~ Sam Altman

You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did ~ Sunday Adelaja

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth. ~ Mark Krikorian

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. ~ Robert Solow

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can! ~ John C. Maxwell

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. ~ Mitch Kapor

That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought
Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family. ~ Peter McWilliams

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ~ Tom Peters

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness. ~ George Allen

With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source. ~ Matt Perman

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. ~ Peter Drucker

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce. ~ John Hoeven

If positive thinking can increase productivity, then maybe increasing our productivity can increase positive thinking". ~ Laurie Sims

God calls you to productivity, but he calls you to the right kind of productivity. He calls you to be productive for his sake, not your own. ~ Tim Challies

Procrastinate strategically ... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity. ~ Adam Grant

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. ~ Robin Sharma

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized. ~ Anil Dash

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. ~ Christopher Dawson

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. ~ Lance Morrow

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it. ~ David Allen

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging. ~ Merlin Mann

It's surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind. ~ Brittany Burgunder

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits. ~ Judy Woodruff

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older. ~ Alan Redpath

Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person's productivity ~ Sunday Adelaja

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all. ~ Kenneth Atchity

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. ~ Jack Welch

Time management is about life management. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager. ~ Tony Alessandra

The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'. ~ Henrietta Newton Martin

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other. ~ Rob Pike

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995. ~ Capers Jones

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. ~ Peter Brimelow

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work. ~ Jack Welch

Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank. ~ Jeff Davidson

A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept
current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis,
is a master key to stress-free productivity. ~ David Allen

priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely ~ Gary Keller

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. ~ Mary Garden

Friend once told me that she could wake up a Christian ~ Christian Wiman

Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine. ~ Sean Stephenson

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us. ~ Bill Vaughan

Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals. ~ Dan S. Kennedy

Unhealthy habits and lifestyles reduce your productivity, cost your business (which, if you're self-employed, is costing you), and create cyclical patterns of dysfunction and general dissatisfaction. ~ Melissa Steginus

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others. ~ John Stahl-Wert

Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized, ~ Peter Pronovost

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. ~ E. Stanley Jones

No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?" ~ Dianne Simmons ~ Michelle Sutton

The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for , within the doors of your corporate structure , i.e. your human resource department. ~ Henrietta Newton Martin

We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated. ~ Josh McDowell

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. ~ Christian Lacroix