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The proud heart strives to earn salvation, but both our title to heaven and our fitness for it are found in the righteousness of Christ.— The Desire of Ages, 300 (1898) .

… , and strives for the victory. But to “him that overcometh” the promises are given. The Lord presents the right way, but He compels no one to obey. He leaves those …

… . Satan strives to turn men from their allegiance to God, and from rendering obedience to His law; therefore he directs his efforts especially against that …

… must strive daily against outward evil and inward sin, if we would reach the perfection of Christian character.— The Review and Herald, May 30, 1882 .

In fires, in floods, in earthquakes, in the fury of the great deep, in calamities by sea and by land, the warning is given that God's Spirit will not always strive with men.— Manuscript Releases 3:315 (1897) .

It was after the disciples had come into perfect unity, when they were no longer striving for the highest place, that the Spirit was poured out.— Testimonies for the Church 8:20 (1904) .

… and striving to conform their lives to its precepts.— Prophets and Kings, 626 (c. 1914).

… reproved, strive to make every word vindicate their own statements. The twistings and connivings and misrepresentations and misapplications of the Word …

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ; that, whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel;

… comfortless striving—years of rigorous self-denial, of reproach and humiliation—Wesley had steadfastly adhered to his one purpose of seeking God. Now he …