Quotes about Endurance

People lead lives of quiet desperation.

I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS

If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9

Tough times don't last, tough people do."