Quotes about Endurance

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.

Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

The reality is we live in a world that's filled with stuff, but quitting is not an option.

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

You've been a good steward of it. You've been a good steward of your pain.

She stands — she sits — she staggers — she falls — she groans — she dies — and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.