Quotes About Persistence

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Prayer is an effort of will.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

Put legs to your prayers

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

You haunt my days and dreams.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.