Quotes about Striving

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet.

Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. I want - to be bound to Christ with unbreakable bonds and to feel these bonds. To be sorrowful yet always rejoicing. To live in and for Christ, to be one of the poor in His kingdom, steeped in the leaven, filled with His spirit, impelled by His Love, reposing in the Father with the repose of which I wrote to you in my last letter.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.