Quotes About Effort

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

Don't blame God for your lack of success.

If you will do what you CAN do, God will do what you CANNOT do.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

Sometimes you just gotta use what God gave you to the best of your abilities.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

God helps him who strives hard.

Anything less than your best dishonors God

The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.