Quotes about Perseverance

When you live for the will of God, you will not fulfill the desires of men. As a result, you will suffer in the flesh.

A true believer, a disciple, lays down his life completely for the Master. Disciples are steadfast to the end. Converts and onlookers may desire the benefits and blessings, but they lack the endurance to last to the end. Eventually they will fade away.

If you search for an escape route before understanding why God has you in a particularly dry situation, you unwittingly will prolong your wilderness time.

Discouragement occurs in deserts or battles from focusing on ourselves rather than on God and our mission.

Faith says, I trust You even though I don't understand.

But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it." (Matthew 7:13—14 TEV)

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.

I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no; if God doth not come in, thought I, I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven, come hell; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do; if not, I will venture for thy name.

And as he went, he sang, saying-- Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights: Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For though they kill'd thee, thou art yet alive!