Quotes About Persistence

You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.

One reason many of us never get an answer to our prayers is that all we do is pray.

opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.

if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.

100 percent of the prayers I don't pray won't get answered.

If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in well-defined answers.

God can deliver in a day, no doubt. But you've got to back up that deliverance with daily habits that fortify your newfound freedom. If you don't, it'll be short lived. You'll end up right back where you started

Si oras a Dios regularmente, sucederán cosas irregulares con regularidad.

Orar con persistencia es pedirle a Dios que nos haga la vida más difícil. Mientras mayor es tu persistencia al orar, más tendrás que trabajar. Y eso es una bendición de Dios.

La razón por la que Dios no responde a nuestras oraciones, no es que no estemos orando con suficiente fervor; en la mayoría de los casos, la razón es que no estamos dispuestos a hacer todo el trabajo que sea necesario.

Orar con persistencia es algo largo y aburrido, pero es el precio que se paga por los milagros.

Orar con fervor es algo que va mucho más allá de decir palabras: es sangre, sudor y lágrimas.

When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.

Si estás dispuesto a interrumpir tu ciclo de sueño, tal vez tus sueños se conviertan en realidades.

answer our prayers isn't that we aren't praying hard enough; the reason, more often than not, is that we aren't willing to work hard enough. Praying hard is synonymous with working hard. Think of praying hard and working hard as concentric circles. It's the way we double-circle our dreams and His promises. There comes a moment, after you have prayed through, when you have to start doing something about it. You have to take a step of faith, and

cuando un sueño procede de Dios, tiene más de nueve vidas.

Orar con fervor + pensar a largo plazo = mantenerse enfocado.

Qué sucedería si enfocaras tus oraciones en una cosa por una persona durante un mes o un año? Solo hay una manera de averiguarlo: haz tu propio experimento de oración.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

if we are going to experience a miracle one day, we need to pray every day. Too many people pray like they are playing the lottery. Prayer is more like an investment account. Every deposit accumulates compound interest. And one day, if we keep making deposits every day, it will pay dividends beyond our wildest imagination.