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Quotes About Persistence

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
~ Hudson Taylor
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
~ A. B. Simpson
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
~ Austin O'Malley
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
~ Samuel Chadwick
If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.
~ Stormie Omartian
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
~ J. C. Ryle
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.
~ John Newton
And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.
~ John Milton
Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
~ David Jeremiah
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
~ S. D Gordon
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
~ Aesop
intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.
~ Samuel Chadwick
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
~ George Eliot
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.
~ Max Lucado
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
~ Brendan Francis
The key to prayer is simply praying.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
To pray well one must pray much.
~ Georgia Harkness
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
~ Timothy Keller
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
~ Mark Batterson
Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.
~ Dalai Lama
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.
~ Mary Baker Eddy