Quotes about Endurance

2 Thessalonians 3:5: "May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

Do not pray for relief from pain, but pray for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love

I AM in pain to see you suffer so long; what gives me some ease, and sweetens the feeling I have of your griefs, is that they are proofs of GOD's love towards you: see them in that view, and you will bear them more easily.

he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he was not uneasy about it, knowing very well, that as he could do nothing of himself, GOD would not fail to give him the strength to bear it.

He said it was impossible that God would deceive. He also said that God would not allow a soul, which is perfectly surrendered to Him and committed to endure everything for His sake, to suffer long.

Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Hope proves a man deathless.

When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there. And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.

eats the whale by its own light, does

Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat.

My lord, like one's cranium, it will endure till broken.