Quotes about Perseverance

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

I long with intense desire to move on and finish my work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will in all things.

25th March, 1873.—Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. I encourage myself in the Lord my God, and go forward.

3rd October, 1871.—I read the whole Bible through four times whilst I was in Manyuema.

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

1st January, 1872.—May the Almighty help me to finish my work this year for Christ's sake!

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.