"The outward work can
never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can
never be great is the inward is small or of little worth...All works are
surely dead if anything from the outside compels you to work. Even if
it were God himself compelling you to work from the outside, your works
would be dead. If your works are to live, then God must move you from
the inside, from the innermost region of the soul--then they will really
live. There is your life and there alone you live and your works
live."
- Meister Eckhart