Quotes about Diligence

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

The Psalmist expressed our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

Much effort, much prosperity.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. "Who a person is-how they conduct their lives-will influence a child for righteousness

I'll never forget the Sunday that the Lord informed me that it wasn't my service, and I couldn't do as I pleased. (Planning is biblical. But our diligence and vision must never include usurping the authority of the Holy Spirit. The lordship of Jesus is seen in our willingness to follow the Holy Spirit's leading. He wants His Church back!) But

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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