Quotes about Perseverance

If Jesus heals you instantly, praise him. If you are still waiting for healing, trust him. Your suffering is your sermon.

Just when the womb gets too old for babies, Sarai gets pregnant. Just when the failure is too great for grace, David is pardoned. And just when the road is too dark for Mary and Mary, the angel glows and the Savior shows and the two women will never be the same. The lesson? Three words. Don't give up.

Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it.

Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me.

Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.

The difficulties have taken much away. I get that. But there is one gift your trouble cannot touch: your destiny.

Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

Your financial struggles have not gone unnoticed in heaven.

Life is a gift, albeit unassembled. It comes in pieces, and sometimes it falls to pieces.

Like Joseph, you've been dumped into the pit. And, like Joseph, you choose to heed the call of God on your life. It's not easy. You're tempted to get even. But you choose instead to ponder your destiny.