Quotes about Endurance

Remember, it's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Jerome was resolved to seal the doctrine with his blood; and he suffered death with the most distinguished magnanimity.

Bonner had served a poor blind harper in nearly the same manner, who had steadily maintained a hope that if every joint of him were to be burnt, he should not fly from the faith.

Shall I disdain to suffer at the stake, when my Redeemer did not refuse to suffer the most vile death upon the cross for me?

I hear people saying to me: 'When is it going to get easier?' When you die. Warfare is a normal New Testament Christian posture. Get used to it.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.