Quotes about Perseverance
You must die if you would live under this King. You must bear the cross and the hatred of the whole world. You must not flee from ignominy, poverty, hunger, and thirst, in other words, all the evil that floods the earth.
— Martin Luther
I say the Gospel is frail because we are frail.
— Martin Luther
Even if I knew the world was going to go to pieces I'd still plant an apple tree today
— Martin Luther
Therefore it is better to endure troubles with the hope of eternal deliverance than to avoid them and rush into eternal ruin.
— Martin Luther
For it is the explicit statement of Sacred Scripture that one who is outside of tribulation is outside the condition and hope of salvation.
— Martin Luther
But if I endure in trouble, then Pharaoh and his troops are plunged into the deep, and the way out I have hoped for is opened to me.
— Martin Luther
He lives and reigns who saved the three youths from the fiery furnace of the king of Babylon, and if He will not save me, my head is worth nothing compared with Christ.
— Martin Luther
You will thus wrong your faith, which alone bestows all things on you, and the increase of which, either by working or by suffering, is alone to be cared for.
— Martin Luther
The world is a head of thistles; whichever way you turn it, it stretches the thorns about itself.
— Martin Luther
And the human mind endures misfortunes of any kind more easily than prosperity and abundance, as the German proverb puts it: "Strong legs are needed to be able to endure good days.
— Martin Luther
for no man, without trials and temptations, can attain to the true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
— Martin Luther
In short, those of us who are in the church are in the vale of tears.
— Martin Luther