Quotes about Perseverance
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
— Genesis 22:4
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
— Genesis 30:8
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
— Genesis 31:7
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
— Genesis 31:40
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
— Genesis 31:42
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
— Genesis 32:24
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
— Genesis 32:25
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
— Genesis 32:26
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
— Genesis 32:31
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
— Genesis 39:10
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
— Genesis 39:20
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
— Genesis 40:15