Quotes about Perseverance

Storms come to the obedient.

The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren't the first person to cry. And you aren't the first person to be helped. Read the story, and remember—the story is yours!

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

It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny.

Think you have lost it all? You haven't. God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty-- never canceled, never rescinded (Rom. 11:29 MSG).

The contagiously calm person is the one who reminds others, "God is in control." This is the executive who tells the company, "Let's all do our part; we'll be okay." This is the leader who sees the challenge, acknowledges it, and observes, "These are tough times, but we'll get through them.

So did yours. Joseph's pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph was thrown in a hole and despised. And you? Thrown in an unemployment line and forgotten. Thrown into a divorce and abandoned, into a bed and abused. The pit. A kind of death, waterless and austere. Some people never recover. Life is reduced to one quest: get out and never be hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exits.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Nothing will work unless you do.

To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.