Quotes about Persistence

Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.

The distance between success and your dreams is hard work.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Few find success without hard work and determination. Those who do have hardly gained anything for themselves that they deserve.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Father, teach us all how to wait.

Patient, persevering, believing prayer that is offered up to God in the name of the Lord Jesus has always brought the blessing sooner or later.

Nothing so reveals a defective spiritual life in a minister or a congregation as the lack of believing and unceasing prayer. Prayer is the pulse of the spiritual life. It is the great means by which ministers and laypeople alike receive the blessing and power of heaven. Persevering and believing prayer precludes a strong and abundant life.

It was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

We know how faith, like water, can exercise the irresistible power it has and be gathered up and accumulated, until the stream can rush in full force; likewise, there must often be a heaping up of prayer, until God sees that the measure is full, and the answer comes.

In not granting an answer, the Father tells us that there is something wrong in our praying. He wants to teach us to discover it and confess it; He wants to educate us about true believing and prevailing prayer. He will only attain His objective when He brings us to see that we are to blame for the withholding of the answer - our aim, or our faith, or our life is not what it should be.

The measure of believing and continued prayer will be the measure of the Spirit's working in the church. Direct, definite, and determined prayer is what we need.