Quotes About Persistence

The reason God tells you to hold fast is because there is a force that is going to seek to pull your blessings away from you. You are not going to keep your healing, you are not going to keep your blessings, and you are not going to keep all the good things of God if you get passive and let the devil slip up and take them away from you. The Bible says, "But hold fast what you have till I come!

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Sin does not only still abide in us, but is still acting, still laboring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be the most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

John P. Kotter

Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one's convictions.

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

Just do the next right thing. Then repeat indefinitely.

When your dreams are big enough the odds just don't matter.

When you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, sometime during your seemingly infinite journey the weathervane will just change direction and the new winds of positive change will blow at your back instead of into your face and things will just get easier and you will start to see progress right out of the blue. When that day happens you will know that it is just a matter of time. And time is what I have.

Q: Does it get easier? A: No, you just get better at it.

Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!

I have not yet begun to fight!

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

Whatever it takes, Lord, keep me desperate for You because I tend to wander when I stop feeling my need for You.

Steve Halliday believed in the book from the beginning. If he hadn't asked to see the sermons in 1983, there may be no Desiring God.

A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

El esfuerzo que hemos dedicado a intentar que suceda nos ha dejado agotados mental y emocionalmente

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.