Quotes about Effort
The path to Christian perfection always runs across the collapse of our own moral efforts and self-established ideals.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Throw yourself into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for Him is a waste of time or effort.
- Rick Warren
It is usually meaningless work, not overwork, that wears us down, saps our strength, and robs our joy.
- Rick Warren
Real worship costs.
- Rick Warren
When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home — you'll go home.
- Rick Warren
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.
- Joyce Meyer
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
- CS Lewis
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
- Thomas a Kempis
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
- St. Augustine
The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
- St. John Chrysostom
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
- Hudson Taylor