Quotes about Steadfastness

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Great is the advantage of patience.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Some of us get played out in the first ten yards, because God compels us to go where we cannot see the way, and we say—"I will wait till I get nearer the big crisis." If we do not do the running steadily in the little ways, we shall do nothing in the crisis.

But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.

Patience means self-suffering.

So, then, since the person you are and the world God has made will be gloriously reaffirmed in God's eventual future, you must be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that in the Lord your labour is not in vain." Belief in the bodily resurrection includes the belief that what is done in the present in the body, by the power of the Spirit, will be reaffirmed in the eventual future, in ways at which we can presently only guess.

Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It's always to soon to quit!

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.