Quotes about Perseverance
So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
— Epictetus
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
— Bob Goff
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
— David Livingstone
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
— Samuel Johnson
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
— Philip Yancey
People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.
— Philip Yancey
It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. "People said they grew more during seasons of loss, pain, and crisis than they did at any other time." We discover the hidden value of suffering only by suffering — not as part of God's original or ultimate plan for us, but as a redemptive transformation that takes place in the midst of trial.
— Philip Yancey
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
— Philip Yancey
But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.
— Philip Yancey