Quotes about Persistence

Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency.

But pulling away only makes things worse. God says, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). All my heart includes the parts that are broken. Bring it all to God.

The enemy doesn't take vacations, so we shouldn't take vacations from studying God's Word either. We wouldn't want to go even a few hours without water, certainly not days or weeks, and we should view God's living water for our souls in the same way.

Dear Lord, make me a courageous woman who isn't afraid to pray this prayer over and over in the days ahead. In Jesus' name. Amen.

The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Excellence requires discomfort.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.