Quotes about Endurance

He badder than death yet gives no sweet release.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.

Here, root yourselves beside me. I am that Tree planted by the River, Which will not be moved. I, the Rock, I, the River, I, the Tree, I am yours—your passages have been paid. Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live.

We turned other cheeks so often our heads seemed to revolve on the end of our necks, like old stop and go signs.

Struggling is okay. Back-stepping is okay. Small bits of progress are not only okay, they're admirable.

There is no situation in life that can't be improved by laugher. Sometimes humor can help us get through situations we couldn't possibly endure without it. Sometimes laughter isn't superfluous; it's essential. Sometimes laughter is the next lesson we need to be learning.

When I'm patient, things usually work out for the best in the end.

Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walked the streets of Jerusalem, 1,734 million people alive on this earth today call themselves by the ever-dividing, ever-uniting word: Christian. God is still scattering the seeds a few righteous renegades planted in a city called Antioch. Had they only known what they were starting.

Affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. Romans 5:3—4

LORD, Your name endures forever, Your reputation, LORD, through all generations. Psalm 135:13

He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. Job 23:10