Quotes About Effort

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

Do your best and God will do the rest.

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

Change won't happen through 'trying harder' but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

The body I had at 21, God gave me. The body I have at 31, is one I worked for.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

If we do our best, God will do the rest.

When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried