Quotes about Endurance

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

Our torments also may in length of time become our elements, these piercing fires as soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

It takes a little time sometimes to get your feet back on the ground.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

Only infinite patience produces immediate results.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of—to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.