Quotes about Persistence
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
— Proverbs 27:22
Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
— Isaiah 28:28
He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.
— Isaiah 41:3
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
— Isaiah 41:12
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
— Isaiah 43:22
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
— Isaiah 48:4
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
— Isaiah 65:2
And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
— Jeremiah 7:13
Can anyone smash iron—iron from the north—or bronze?
— Jeremiah 15:12
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
— Jeremiah 29:13
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
— Jeremiah 33:1
This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!
— Jeremiah 37:9