Quotes about Perseverance

Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.

St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?

You have to knock on doors. You can't keep your dreams a secret. You have to put them out there on display and people can say whatever they want but keep on pointing your actions towards your dreams.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.