Quotes about Endurance

Being a Christian does not exempt us from tough training, which may mean suffering. If the training were easy, we would not be prepared for the tough days ahead.

Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

And no matter what game they play We got something they can never take away

Love would never leave us alone.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

I am glad that we endured all those discomforts and inconveniences... It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for one's self.

Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.

Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.

Sometimes, when I am not playing in a game, it leaves me feeling very tired when I play in the next one. It is like I haven't trained for a month.

And do ye tell it to those who come after you, how amid swords and deserts and wild beasts, chastity was never captive: and how a man devoted to Christ may die, but cannot be defeated.

But if the want of those things which are necessary for the support of the living, as food and clothing, though painful and trying, does not break down the fortitude and virtuous endurance of good men, nor eradicate piety from their souls, but rather renders it more fruitful, how much less can the absence of the funeral, and of the other customary attentions paid to the dead, render those wretched who are already reposing in the hidden abodes of the blessed!

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.