Far from its being the Christian’s duty to strive after an improvement in the order of the State or of society, any such striving would be really sinful.
All that we truly love we strive to attain, and all that we strive after rightly we do attain.
Virtue is its own reward, because its performance creates the kingdom of heaven within us, and we cannot attain to virtue until we strive after it for its own sake.
He has called men and bidden them strive after holiness.
First, he urges the brethren to strive after stedfastness, but to beware of sinking into a careless security which may make them an easy prey to false guides.
For he knows that to strive after it will sunder them from the corruptions of those false teachers whom he has called "spots and blemishes" (ii.
Willett, of the University of Chicago, was also in harmony with all this when he said in an address heard by the writer: It is the task of the Church to interpret to the world the ideals of Jesus for men to strive after.
It is perfectly consistent, therefore, that he should seek to stir man's noble aspirations and should present high ideals for him to strive after.
By one we strive after an ideal; by the other we quit all striving and surrender to a Person.
It is not necessary to strive after chastity; but debauchery should be avoided.
And so my answer to your fundamental question, as to whether it is necessary to strive after consciousness in our inner life, is this, that this is the most necessary and important work of our life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strive after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
