Quotes about Persistence
Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
— Oswald Chambers
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
— John Bunyan
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
— DL Moody
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
— Charles Finney
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.
— John Owen
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
— William Carey
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
— Leonard Ravenhill
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
— St. Augustine
Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.
— Jim Cymbala
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
— Adoniram Judson
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
— St. Francis Of Assisi