Quotes about Perseverance

The entire sweep of the Bible teaches that Christians in non-Christian environments are not to be worried so much about changing their environments as they are to remain faithful in whatever kind of environment they find themselves.

Martin Luther King Jr., closing down one of his sermons in the early days in Montgomery, speaks of what it means to be a witness: Honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering, losing a job, or having a six-year-old daughter ask, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?

The only thing that "exploits your gifts" or that taxes you to the limits or that fills your soul or that challenges you to live the dream the most is following Jesus. Some days you may do pretty well; other days you may flub up.

Yahweh is the sort who sticks with what he is stuck with.

The end of the Sermon makes it clear that Jesus expects his followers to take up his words and live them out regardless of the cost. I know of no alternative. Take them or leave them, is what I say to myself.

Love is something worth suffering for...

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

It is truly one day at a time.

I'm a good man with a good heart had a tough time, got a rough start But I finally learned to let it go.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.