Quotes about Endurance

Active waiting is essential to the spiritual life.

A friend once wrote: "Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

We do not have to go after crosses, but we have to take up the crosses that have been ours all along.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.

We tend to be compassionate to the extent that we have suffered the Passion in our own lives.

Our cup is often so full of pain that joy seems completely unreachable. When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

The reward for waiting on God far exceeds the investment of patience required to do so. JOSHUA

Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance.