The Impossibility of Two Masters
“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.” Luke 16:13-15
“You cannot serve two masters—you must serve one or another. If your work is first with you, and your fee second, work is your master, and the Lord of work, who is God. But if your fee is first with you, and your work second, fee is your master, and the Lord of fee, who is the devil. So there you have it in brief terms—work first, you are God’s servants; fee first, you are the fiend’s. And it makes a difference, now and ever, believe me, whether you serve him who has on his vesture and thigh written, ‘King of kings,’ and whose service is perfect freedom, or him on whose vesture and thigh the name is written, ‘Slave of slaves,’ and whose service is perfect slavery.”
John Ruskin
