Quotes about Endurance

If you ask God for love, He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience, He may give you someone to bear.

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.

When I think of the human suffering, the terrible amount of energy needed to move even infinitesimally toward a more decent life I am amazed at human patience.