Quotes about Persistence

When love's involved, there's got to be a way.

The Bible tells us in Luke 11:9: 'Ask, and it shall be given to you, seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.' Our heavenly Father wants to give us good things.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

He who began a good work in you will complete it. Don't give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you've come—or how far you feel you have to go—don't stop now. Even if you miss the mark terribly, today is a new day. Live for "that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed" you.

It's the squeeze we've endured that proves to the world that the final product is worth it.

Anything worth achieving in this life requires time, patience, and some discomfort.

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do. Prayer changes us into the people who can participate in the greater work of God without being spoiled by it through pride or becoming discouraged by the increased weight of greater fruitfulness.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain. Prayer is the first thing our flesh stops when times get easy, and true prayer is the last thing we resort to when times get tough.

God calls us to have strength in our character and conduct, not simply a stiff upper lip in sorrow or a stubborn persistence during hardship. Secondarily, because the word is "passive voice," we know that the strength God demands He also provides. The strength does not come from a place inside us but a source beyond ourselves, namely, the Lord.