Quotes about Endurance
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS
— Leonard Ravenhill
If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9
— Leonard Sweet
Tough times don't last, tough people do."
— Les Brown
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
— Charles Spurgeon
Despite their poverty, their tragic pasts, their own sorrows, they stood before her in strength and spoke with a wisdom that defied their circumstances.
— Janette Oke
She had a hard time to keep from running.
— Janette Oke
She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.
— Janette Oke
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
— St. Jerome