Quotes about Endurance

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Everything is in your face. The battle is that you're getting things from all ends like never before and the intensity is being turned up like never before. So there's a call to be set apart, and there's a call to speak the truth, and there's a call to start standing up and putting your faith in action.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.