Quotes about Endurance

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.

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The hope of heaven brought him joy, and joy brought him strength, and so, like John Calvin before him and George Whitefield after him (two verifiable examples) and, it would seem, like the apostle Paul himself Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ he was astoundingly enabled to labor on, accomplishing more than would ever have seemed possible in a single lifetime."4 But

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

Perseverance Here is a key to great earnestness in preaching. If you really believe that "[those who endure] to the end will be saved" (Mark 13:13), and that not only the first act of faith but all subsequent, acts of persevering faith are sustained by the Spirit through the Word of God, then virtually every sermon is a "salvation sermon," and the souls of the saints are being saved every Sunday.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.