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Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit. -- Derek Prince
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. -- Alain de Botton
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God! -- Bridget of Sweden
We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves. -- Hugh B. Brown
What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle? -- Peggy Toney Horton
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. -- Mike Lowry
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy. -- Alfred North Whitehead
We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves -- Confucius
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them. -- Genevieve Behrend
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. -- Thomas a Kempis
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. -- Benjamin Disraeli
When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning. -- Polybius
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari -- Terry Pratchett
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men. -- John Tillotson
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom. -- Marcus Garvey
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by. -- Bruno Grandi
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. -- Thomas Paine
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. -- Thomas Paine
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber. -- Samuel Johnson
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter. -- Voltaire
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. -- Allen Ginsberg
What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone. -- Ted Cruz
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can. -- Jonathan Swift
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business. -- Henry David Thoreau
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike. -- H. P. Blavatsky
We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others. -- Erwin McManus
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. -- Hale White
The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head. -- Leslie Stephen
It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other. -- John Tillotson
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy. -- Thomas Paine

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