Quotes about Perseverance

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

So what is "heart"? It's courage, but courage to do what? The courage to do the right thing when all else tells you not to do it. The courage to rise above your surroundings and circumstances. The courage to be God's idea of a real man and to give of yourself for others when it costs you to do so and when everything tells you to look out for yourself first.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.

Take all we have, only give us peace'? In God's name…let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.

As the world recognizes Wilberforce, his work, and his Savior, let us not fall into former pits of forgetfulness.

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.