Quotes about Effort

God's grace produces men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not pampered, spoiled weaklings. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the worthy and excellent life of a disciple of Jesus in the realities of life. And it is always necessary for us to make an effort to live a life of worth and excellence.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity.

regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow

Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.' The promise of entering his rest still stands, so let us never give up. Let us, therefore, make every effort - spoudazo - make every effort to enter that rest.

Faith is the supreme effort of your life—throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.

It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.