...Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, "for thy sake," Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine:...room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for...

...Teach me. my God and King, In all things thee to see; And what I do in anything To do it as for thee. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine:...room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. So who can learn from Calvin today? It is ironic that those who perhaps are most willing to listen...

...especially women, have got stuck in a cycle of servitude, guilt and low self-esteem. I sang as a child 'A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine,...room as for thy laws makes that and the action fine' - not necessarily, it might just be drudgery and maybe you shouldn't be doing it. So, let's revisit...

...partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, 'for thy sake'. Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine;...room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for...

...128-30 Phoebus, out of reverence . . . count the toil fair, compare, from George Herbert's The Elixir. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine. 153-4 Aha! Here they come now!: 'it is early morning: so the birds are beginning to...

...nothing can be so mean, which with this tincture, "For thy sake, " will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room as for thy laws makes that an action fine. —George Herbert This book has been full of advice: some tentative, some dogmatic,...

...level is often not so simple as it seems, and the quaintly phrased hymn which I sang in my childhood, 'Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws makes that and the action fine', was not talking foolishly. The task of attention goes on all the time and at apparently empty and everyday...

...level is often not so simple as it seems, and the quaintly phrased hymn which I sang in my childhood, 'Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws makes that and the action fine', was not talking foolishly. The task of attention goes on all the time and at apparently empty and everyday...

...also seek 'calmness and peace'. All honest work, however menial, was a fulfilment of God's vocation: Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fme. A cynic might reflect that George Herbert had half a dozen servants to sweep his rectory: there...

...Herbert, The Elixir, 5: "A servant with this clause [namely, in all things God to see] Makes drudgerie divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." 24William Blake: "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars...