Quotes about Perseverance

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

And unless we look and listen closely, we risk making the same mistake. God's lights in our dark nights are as numerous as the stars, if only we'll look for them. from In the Eye of the Storm

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12).

Ever broken a promise you've made to God? Don't you deserve to be punished? And yet, here you are. Reading this book. Breathing. Still witnessing sunsets and hearing babies gurgle. Still watching the seasons change. There are no lashes on your back or hooks in your nose or shackles on your feet. Apparently God hasn't kept a list of your wrongs.

Hope doesn't promise an instant solution but rather the possibility of an eventual one. Sometimes all we need is a little hope.

Contingent faith is the faith of sidewalk chalk: it's beautiful when the sun shines, but washes away when the rain falls.

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

The word race is from the Greek agon, from which we get the word agony.

On-and-off salvation never appears in the Bible. Salvation is not a repeated phenomenon. Scripture contains no example of a person who was saved, then lost, then resaved, then lost again.

Never let me forget that although without you I can do nothing, in Christ I can do all things.

Failure is a form of quicksand. Take immediate action or you'll be sucked under.

As long as Peter focused on the face of Christ, he did the impossible.