Quotes about Perseverance
Faith says, I trust You even though I don't understand.
— John Bevere
But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it." (Matthew 7:13—14 TEV)
— John Bevere
To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.
— John Bunyan
Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.
— John Bunyan
Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.
— John Bunyan
His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
— John Bunyan
I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name.
— John Bunyan
And as he went, he sang, saying-- Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights: Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For though they kill'd thee, thou art yet alive!
— John Bunyan
The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.
— John Bunyan
The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive
— John Bunyan
Then said Good-Will, Alas, poor Pliable! Is the celestial glory of so little value to him that he considers it unworthy of his hazarding a few difficulties to obtain it? Christian
— John Bunyan
The hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend, For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart, let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
— John Bunyan