The Idyl of Twin Fires

“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness”

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.””

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“the foundation of effectiveness is not first techniques or tools, but character.””

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“One of the best places for efficiency is being efficient with things so that you can be effective with people.””

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“A lack of white space on one’s calendar correlates with a lack of white space in one’s brain.”3””

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“We need to care about beauty and not just the utility of our products because people are not only rational but also emotional. We need to treat people as whole people. This means caring about purity and the emotional side of human nature, not just utility.””

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.””

— Walter Prichard Eaton

“The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is one of the forms that frustration takes. The inordinate challenges we face in knowledge work can be traced to the fall just as much as the challenges in manual work. Send it especially lies behind the villain of lack of fulfillment. The reason we lack fulfillment is because we aren't fulfilling our true purpose, that is because we have sinned and deviated from God's path.””

— Walter Prichard Eaton