Quotes about Endurance

An exhortation from one beggar to another: keep sacrificing. Keep losing. Keep laying your life down. Keep loving your enemies. Keep blessing those who despise you. Keep refusing to return fire upon those who bad-mouth you. Keep pouring your life into others, even if those people never acknowledge it and even if others never notice. Keep faithfully serving your Lord without looking back. Why? Because there is One who is watching. And only His opinion matters.

Temptations are a compliment to our power, not our weakness.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppos

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

When we get waylaid from our walk with God by busyness, depression, family problems, or worse, God does not abandon us.

Winston Churchill said it well: "Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness.

Active waiting is essential to the spiritual life.

A friend once wrote: "Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

We do not have to go after crosses, but we have to take up the crosses that have been ours all along.

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