Quotes about Perseverance
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus said, ''Go ye!'' but He also said, ''Tarry until!'' Let any man shut himself up for a week with only bread and water, with no books except the Bible, with no visitor except the Holy Ghost, and I guarantee, my preacher brethren, that that man will either break up or break through and out. After that, like Paul, he will be known in hell!
— Leonard Ravenhill