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Quotes about Striving

God does not use extraordinary striving. He uses extraordinary availability to reach the world with the message of his Kingdom.
- Ed Stetzer
Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.
- Edith Schaeffer
When he was at the last gasp.
- Anonymous
She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.
- Francine Rivers
Man strives to do things his own way, and yet, it is always Your will that prevails.
- Francine Rivers
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
- Madeleine Albright
We see how many tricks they try, how many pursuits they exhaust themselves with in order to secure the objects of their ambition or greed, while trying to avoid, on the other hand, poverty and humility.
- John Calvin
Those who strive to delay or hinder the restoration of the church will accomplish nothing. God is its vindicator, and he will judge all peoples.
- John Calvin
Anyone, therefore, who obscures the glory of God, puts himself in the position of striving to subvert the eternal purpose of God.
- John Calvin
We never do great things without trying.
- Reinhard Bonnke
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
- Thomas a Kempis
There is no gain without struggle.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.