Quotes about Perseverance

There's a sneaky, malicious enemy that you are always in a battle with—even now.

the battles your enemy wages against you—especially the most acute, consistent ones—possess a personality to them, an intimate knowledge of who you are and the precise pressure points where you can most easily be taken down.

We vigilantly asked God to make our marriage and family (and the families of all those involved in the film) bulletproof against these incessant attacks.

Nope, he penned these words of worship while sitting on the cold-floor, cold-food, maddening reality of Roman confinement. House arrest. Guards at the door, preventing his escape. When he wrote this glorious sentence, he was under a sentence himself, probably for as much as two years. Locked up. Locked down. Imprisoned.

The Water is there. It is always there. Call them. Show them the way.

Because you believed even though you did not see, you will now have the ability to see things that the others did not believe.

The storm raged all around him, but he couldn't feel it.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?

The fight of your life. A very real enemy has been strategizing and scheming against you, assaulting you, coming after your emotions, your mind, your man, your child, your future. In fact, he's doing it right this second. Right where you're sitting. Right where you are. But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops now. He might keep coming, but he won't have victory anymore. Because it all starts failing when we start praying.

Run the race not only with endurance and diligence, but also with careful, watchful submission to His Word.

Fighting the low-level cloud cover that's blocking out what you're wanting to see break through into your life.

God hasn't given up on us, my friend. Aren't you glad? Thank the Lord, for a second chance.