Quotes about Perseverance

Wherever you've been, and whatever you've done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through.

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.

But if you define success in terms of faithfulness, then you are in a position to persevere, because you are released from the demand of immediately observable results, freeing you for faithfulness to the Gospel's message and methods, leaving numbers to the Lord.

It's amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.

Life is a war against a spiritual enemy we cannot see. We can't win on our own, but the God who sees all gives us courage, perseverance, and wisdom to win an otherwise unwinnable war.

this is not a time of retreat but rather resurgence. This is not a time for compromise but rather courage.

has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.