Quotes About Persistence

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.

Así como nuestros mayores éxitos vienen pisándoles los talones a nuestros mayores fracasos, muchas veces nuestras respuestas mayores vienen pisándoles los talones a nuestras oraciones más largas y aburridas.

God is honored when we act as if He is going to answer our prayers! And acting as if means acting on our prayers. After hitting our knees, we need to take a small step of faith. And those small steps of faith often turn into giant leaps.

How desperate are you for the blessing, the breakthrough, the miracle? Desperate enough to pray through the night? How many times are you willing to circle the promise?

God is still honoring spiritual desperadoes who crash parties and climb trees. God is still honoring those who defy protocol with their bold prayers. God is still honoring those who pray with audacity and tenacity.

After we pray like it depends on God, we need to work like it depends on us. But if we don't pray first, our work won't work.

Almost anyone can accomplish almost anything if they work at it long enough, hard enough, and smart enough.

The spiritual disciplines are art forms. Your first prayer will probably look like a kindergartener's painting. Of course, God still puts it on His refrigerator! But if you keep practicing prayer, your faith will become fluent. Living a Spirit-led life is a steep learning curve. It takes time—and by time, I mean decades, not days. You have to grow in the spiritual disciplines little by little. That's how you go from strength to strength. You keep benchmarking

when you seek God, success will follow.

it's the prayers you pray when you feel like you want to quit praying that can bring the biggest breakthroughs.

If your vision isn't perplexing and impossible, then you need to widen the diameter of your prayer circles.

Después de orar como si todo dependiera de Dios, necesitamos trabajar como si dependiera de nosotros.

Success is a derivative of persistence.

Soñar es una forma de orar, y orar es una forma de soñar. Mientras más ores, más grandes se volverán tus sueños. Y mientras más grandes se vuelvan tus sueños, más tendrás que orar. En ese proceso de trazar unos círculos de oración cada vez mayores, se amplía la esfera de la gloria de Dios.

dream big, pray hard, and think long.

You got to learn to accept the crap. Put it in a box in a corner and never open it again. Pretty soon, it'll go away." He knew that wasn't true,

Mark Billingham

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

wait... promise me one more thing: if tomorrow you wake up feeling unoriginal or frail-hearted or faithless or tired of this world please pick up this book and start back at page one.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

Deep down, I was in limbo. I was very active but the pieces weren't coming together.

Don't go in fear of that which has been looked at again and again. Poets return to the MOON immemorially; it is deeply compelling and we probably won't ever get done with it. The challenge is to look at the familiar without the expected scaffolding of seeing, and the payoff is that such a gaze feels enormously rewarding; it wakes us up, when the old verities are dusted off, the tired approaches set aside.

consistency is a state of mind that, once achieved, won't allow you to "be" any other way.

Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why