Quotes about Perseverance
God seems to be of the opinion that no one should sustain the rigors of the Christian life without very robust and concrete hopes of brazen reward.
— John Eldredge
When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that God has been faithful in the past; God will be faithful again. He urges himself to put his hope in God because the morning will come.
— John Eldredge
Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.
— John Eldredge
The old saints sang "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," both because it's true and also because they needed to declare it to be true.
— John Eldredge
Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!
— John F. Kennedy
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
— John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.
— John F. Kennedy
It's far better to attempt something great and fail than to plan to do nothing and succeed.
— John Hagee
The whole course of Christianity from the first ... is but one series of troubles and disorders. Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times before it. The Church is ever ailing ... Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of truth dim, its adherents scattered. The cause of Christ is ever in its last agony.
— John Henry Newman
I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.
— John Keats
When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.
— John Lennon
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.
— John Lennon