Quotes about Perseverance
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
- Ignatius of Antioch
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
- Jerry Bridges
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
- John Calvin
God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.
- Joyce Meyer
Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.
- Kevin DeYoung
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
- Johannes Tauler
God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.
- Anne Frank
All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.
- Brigham Young
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
- CS Lewis
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
- Charles Colson
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
- Charles Spurgeon
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
- Thomas Watson