Thursday, January 13, 2011

Another Kind Of Thief

"If the price of labor is one dollar for the day, then to waste half the day in idleness is to defraud the employer of half a dollar; this is as dishonest as to take half a dollar from his chest."
- Noah Webster

Source: Noah Webster. Noah Webster's Advice to the Young and Moral Catechism. WallBuilder Press, 1999: p. 32.

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  1. The passage was too long for a quote, but I love how he went on to emphasize that, as Christians, we're stealing from God when we only put in a half-effort, and it's just as bad as if we'd taken something directly from Him.

    -Marshall Jones Jr.

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