Quotes about Perseverance

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.

Take all we have, only give us peace'? In God's name…let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.

As the world recognizes Wilberforce, his work, and his Savior, let us not fall into former pits of forgetfulness.

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

We may only imagine the scene, the old man, the rough ex—sea captain who had so loved little Wilberforce as a boy, and who had entertained such hopes for him, only to see them dashed.

if it be a work of grace, it cannot fail.

Wilberforce wrote some years later that it was as if he'd been all those years in a dream from which at last now he had been awakened.

Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!