Quotes about Persistence

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter

So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.

When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.