Quotes About Persistence

But Jesus did not answer a word. So His disciples came and urged Him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Again He went away and prayed, saying the same thing.

And suppose the one inside answers, ëDo not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.í

I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the manís persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ëThough I neither fear God nor respect men,

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.í”

Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Pray without ceasing.

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.