Quotes about Endurance

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.

Patience in our lives springs from God's power based upon our willingness to learn it.

This age is interested in success, not suffering … Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about "doing good.

End your journey well. Don't waste your life, and don't be satisfied with anything less than God's plan.

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

Old age is Satan's last chance to blow us off course.

As another year ends, no doubt you have had your share of joys and disappointments. Don't live in the past, but "be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near" (James 5:8 NIV).

Our sufferings may be hard to bear, but they teach us lessons which, in turn, equip and enable us to help others.

The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.

We enjoy the sense of God's presence in the midst of suffering here and now. I have talked to people who are experiencing deep pain or severe difficulties, and they have said, "I feel God is so close to me".

The Christian is likened to a boxer, who masters his own body and practices self restraint, and all the way through the New Testament you'll read words like this describing the Christian life: fight, wrestle, run, work, suffer, endure, resist, agonize, persevere. All of these are New Testament words describing the Christian life. It is to be a disciplined life.