Companies are relying on the fact that we are too busy and too caught up with our own lives to notice that their new improved packaging actually means less product.
He had no knowledge of the dawn-till-midnight activities of these women, chained to supervision of cooking, nursing, sewing and laundering. He only saw the outward results, and those results impressed him.
That is a great injustice. But there is one injustice bitterer even than that — to be denied the right to work according to one's ability. To labor a lifetime uselessly. To be denied the chance to serve.
" Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. " Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.
But I said, " I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the Lord's hand, and my reward is with my God" .
For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.