Quotes about Perseverance
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
— Henry Ward Beecher
O Lord, all our troubles come to us because we do not have our eyes fixed on you. If only we looked at the path we're walking, we would soon arrive. But, we stumble and fall a thousand times and we stray because we do not set our eyes on the true Way.
— Teresa of Avila
Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down.
— Terri Blackstock
When you get to a place in your life where it appears nothing is going in your favor, your circumstances seem hopeless and you have no indication that things will ever change; however, you say with great assurance, "I BELIEVE" then you better get ready, you are speaking the language of God!
— Terri Savelle Foy
He who flees will fight again...
— Tertullian
Hope is patience with the lamp lit
— Tertullian
Most of us pass our lives away eating the husks of life. Within them, beneath the rind, is a sweeter fruit than ever we have tasted. How shall we find it unless the rind is peeled away by Wisdom greater than our own, by a Love whose ways are strange and bewildering to us.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I must walk right up to my last moment.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Ever since his first attack
— St. Therese of Lisieux