Quotes about Perseverance

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12).

Ever broken a promise you've made to God? Don't you deserve to be punished? And yet, here you are. Reading this book. Breathing. Still witnessing sunsets and hearing babies gurgle. Still watching the seasons change. There are no lashes on your back or hooks in your nose or shackles on your feet. Apparently God hasn't kept a list of your wrongs.

Hope doesn't promise an instant solution but rather the possibility of an eventual one. Sometimes all we need is a little hope.

Contingent faith is the faith of sidewalk chalk: it's beautiful when the sun shines, but washes away when the rain falls.

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

The word race is from the Greek agon, from which we get the word agony.

On-and-off salvation never appears in the Bible. Salvation is not a repeated phenomenon. Scripture contains no example of a person who was saved, then lost, then resaved, then lost again.

Never let me forget that although without you I can do nothing, in Christ I can do all things.

Failure is a form of quicksand. Take immediate action or you'll be sucked under.

As long as Peter focused on the face of Christ, he did the impossible.

Isaiah 57:1—2: "The good men perish; the godly die before their time, and no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to realize that God is taking them away from evil days ahead. For the godly who die shall rest in peace" (TLB).

35So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward. 36You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised. 37For in a very short time, "The One who is coming will come and will not be delayed. 38Those who are right with me will live by faith. But if they turn back with fear, I will not be pleased with them.