Quotes about Perseverance

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

Because your world is not out of control but under God's careful redemptive control, you can have hope even when it looks to you as if darkness is winning the day.

My Savior has been with me, for me, and in me, and he works to take very bad things and produce through them very, very good things.

Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.

One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There's a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.

This means he fights for us even when we have given up the fight. Our desire to follow him may weaken, but he will never give up or turn his back on us. He knows us because he made us, which is why he sent his Son to be for us what we could not be for ourselves and to do for us what we could not do on our own.

When we deny our difficulties in order to feel immediate peace, we are not exercising biblical faith.

You can lose it all, but nothing can take life from you, because what defines life is simply not for the taking.