Quotes about Effort

In Paul's day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner's head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn't last beyond a day.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him. . . . When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.

For faith with no effort is no faith at all.

The word race is from the Greek agon, from which we get the word agony.