Quotes About Persistence

My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

I don't pray when I'm in the mood anymore then I wash dishes when I'm in the mood. Pray 'til you feel like praying.

Maturidade é a capacidade de levar a questão não respondida com fé, mantendo-se fiel à Palavra pela qual vivemos.

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as unhurriable as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no power in heaven or earth will frustrate him.

Problems escaped from aren't problems resolved

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

Everybody makes mistakes, sometimes even before we get up in the morning. We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

I'm sorry! It's just that it hurts so much and it never stops!

We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

Deep inside is a voice wanting to taunt her, to tell her she is undeserving of it, to not trust it because it won't last, good things never last. Or it tells her she will fuck up and lose everything. But she's gotten better at tuning that voice out.

Love does not have legs," he slowly read, his finger moving along. "It does not have arms. But it move mountains." He put the paper down at his side

one of the hardest things in life is fessing up to what you want most, because if you do that, and you don't get it, it's so hard to be without it.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

I think it was Robert Frost who said that everything he had learned about life could be summed up in three words: it goes on

We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me. - Tristan Carruthers -

Father Hewett once told me that a saint is a sinner who keeps getting up.

Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.

Something is always better than nothing" no matter how small that "something" is.

My boy," he said quietly, "we have not forgotten. We feel as you do. In his heart every Jew grieves at our captivity. We have need of patriotism like yours. But we have need also of patience. We must not say we cannot endure what God in His judgment has visited upon us." "But how long—must we endure it for ever?" "God has not spoken His final word. Until He does, it is our part to endure.