A Quote by Philip Yancey

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Philip Yancey

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Constant Effort Faith Found Living Requires Unseen World

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Philip Yancey
American - Author
Born: 1949

Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

Jack H. Goaslind

The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful.

Leanne Payne

Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.

Marvin Olasky

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Mark Twain

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

Robert Genn

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Gaston Bachelard

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

Stephen Batchelor

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

David A. Bednar

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.

Ann Aguirre

Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.

Samael Aun Weor

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Elizabeth Edwards

I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

Dalai Lama

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.

Eric Metaxas

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.

James Freeman Clarke

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