Quotes about Perseverance

There will be dark days, days of loss and days of failure, but they will not last forever. The light will always return to chase away the darkness, the sun will always come out again after the rain, and the human spirit will always rise above failure. Fear will assault us, but we will not be afraid, "for Thou art with me.

The author of the Twenty-third Psalm makes a similar point. When all is going smoothly in his life, surrounded by green pastures and still waters, the psalmist talks about God, referring to God as He. But when he finds himself for the first time in the valley of the shadow of death and discovers that God has not abandoned him, only then does he say for the first time, "for Thou art with me.

To wish to forget the hope because it wasn't realized, to try to cleanse your mind of the beautiful dream because it didn't come true, is to miss out on lie altogether, because life is designed to be lived in an alternation of hours of sunlight and hours of darkness.

If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life's crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.

Those who live with faith have a much better road, a much happier life.

Believe and you're halfway there.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Hope does not deny the evil, but is a response to it.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.