Quotes about Endurance

You see, you and I only ever really understand the painful trials of this moment when we look at them through the lens of eternity.

Rather than suffering being connected to the bad things we have done, Scripture connects trials and difficulty to the good things God wants for us and is working to produce in us (see James 1:2—4).

Suffering, sadness, and death are not yet no more. It is hard to live in the middle, but that is exactly where we live. We live in a world that is still sadly and terribly broken.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it. As I reflect on my own experience and that of many others far wiser than I, God seems willing to help that process along.

Grace grows best in winter.

Mother Teresa. According to her own journal, she was in her dark night more or less from 1948 until near the time of her death in 1997.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”