Quotes about Strive

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

It's been hard. Easier was the wrong word. There's nothing easy about freedom. You have to strive. You have to make a plan and stick to it.

There is no happiness that isn't earned.

The idol from which we strive to get life determines what behaviors we must display and what realities we must conceal.

Make every effort

Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God.

In justification, our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification, our own works are of great importance, and God instructs us to fight, watch, pray, strive, try, and work.

For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.