Quotes about Effort

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn,Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

But now my task is smoothly done:I can fly, or I can run.

If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.

terms are an effort to describe the whole of biblical revelation. They are an effort to say yes to all of the Bible and not silence any of it. They are a way to say yes to the universal, saving will of 1 Timothy 2:4 and yes to the individual unconditional election of Romans 9:6

So when you hold the "Institutes" of John Calvin in your hand, remember that theology, for John Calvin, was forged in the furnace of burning flesh, and that Calvin could not sit idly by without some effort to vindicate the faithful and the God for whom they suffered. I think we would, perhaps, do our theology better today if more were at stake in what we said.