Quotes about Perseverance
When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?
— Peter Enns
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
— Genesis 8:12
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
— Genesis 22:4
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
— Genesis 30:8
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
— Genesis 31:7
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
— Genesis 31:40
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
— Genesis 31:42
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
— Genesis 32:24
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
— Genesis 32:25
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
— Genesis 32:26
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
— Genesis 32:31
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
— Genesis 39:10