Quotes about Perseverance

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end." - Paul

If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

Reading the Bible on a regular basis involves engaging in spiritual warfare, because Satan doesn't want us to read it.

Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this...!