Quotes About Resolve

Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!

My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.

Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And

This is the path toward change. We are called to take it and not wait passively while our minds are drawn away with all kinds of passions that wage war against our souls (1 Peter 2:11). It is when we focus our minds on the glory of Christ that we are transformed from one degree of glory to another (2 Corinthians 3:18). Take this moment to resolve that you will be intentional about what your mind considers. It will dwell on something, and what it dwells on, it becomes like.

Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives. Therefore to resolve to maximize his happiness in God was to resolve to show him more glorious than all other sources of happiness. Seeking happiness in God and glorifying God were the same.

We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.

It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

You know what you have to do, Matthew." Darkness began to close around him, until all he could see was the head ot the deer. The deer and something beyond... "Do it Matthew," the voice whisperd. "Do it for me...

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.*

Keep striving and searching for greater realization. Through that yearning the problems of execution will be solved.

Action requires courage," Thomas said. "Inaction only requires excuses.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

She wanted to sit down, she wanted to turn back. She was afraid, and did not dare give in it it.

exactly that should

Out here a man settles his own problems

Sorry don't get it done, Dude.

That'll be the day!

A man oughta do what he thinks is best.

Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air, Or all the elements by scruples, I know not, Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot! Of all deaths, the violent death is best; For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast, The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.

He who seeks and struggles shall find. Struggles bring the most unlikely things within reach. When a man makes up his mind to do a thing it becomes easy for him to do it. If you have a clear thought, be decided, and hesitate not—if you decide, hesitate not, but carry it out speedily. You

All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.

There is no state of being called "trying".