Quotes about Endurance

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

To lose hope has the same effect on our heart as it would be to stop breathing.

Jesus lived the way he did in this world, for this world, because his hope was set beyond this world; that is the secret of his life. "Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God" (Hebrews 12:2 THE MESSAGE).

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.