Quotes about Perseverance

“Do not be afraid or discouraged,” Joshua said. “Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all the enemies you fight.”

Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.

All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.

When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.

Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.

would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”