Wendell Berry Quotes About Good Works

Quotes about: Good Works

• There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Data, Differences

• [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")

  Wendell Berry

  Order, Sweat, America

• The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

  Wendell Berry

  Ideas, Kind, Good Work

• The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Work, Names

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

• There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Done, Good Work

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

• You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

  Wendell Berry

  Example, Good Work, Critics

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