Quotes About Persistence

We show our faith in God when we keep moving forward even when our prayers aren't being answered. It's the highest form of praise to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn't seem that way.

You're feeling the flames, Ezra, but that's part of the process. This pot I just made won't be useful for anything until it goes through that fire." He pointed to the kiln, where waves of heat shimmered above it. "The pots baking in there right now would be useless if they didn't endure the heat.

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You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's method for rehabilitating polio patients, her idea was scorned until enough men embraced it.

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy's Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

You were mine before you were his." "You are still mine, and I will have you or die in the trying." "I WILL have you.

Lynn M. Hamilton

That edict remains in place to the present day.

We have much to learn from women like Ruby McKnight Williams, who studied the California color line and devised ways to resist it, only to see it materialize somewhere else in another form.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

To this day historians of the Resistance persist in the belief that no women led Resistance networks, blatantly ignoring the work of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade," the British historian J. E. Smyth noted in 2014.

He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

People with a realistic view see rejections as a natural part of life and adjust accordingly. It

If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.

Yes, faith still moves mountains. But sometimes the greater act of faith is not praying for the mountain to move instantly but rather hanging in there while God helps you to move it bit by bit.

Imperfect changes are slow steps of progress wrapped in grace … imperfect progress.

The devil is viscous, but he's not victorious!

If this now broken relationship was Your best, You wouldn't have kept me from it. And if it is Your best sometime in the future, the enemy won't be able to keep us apart.

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth.

We can press through the pains of the famine and find comfort in knowing that God has a good plan even in our discomfort.

willpower. Keep going!

Breakthroughs happen when we get about the business of honoring God moment by moment, step-by-step, day by day by what we do and, more importantly, with the thoughts we think while we do.