Quotes About Perseverance

Life is not always as it seems, but we can trust that a good intention will always carry us through even if the immediate results are not what we had in mind.

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.

nothing is more insidious than spiritual pride; nothing is more impervious to identification. No, the monastic mind0set says, spiritual development is not an event. Spiritual development is a process of continuing conversion. "What do you do in the monastery?" an ancient tale asks. "Oh, we fall and we get up. We fall and we get up," the old monastic answers. In monastic spirituality, we never arrive; we are always arriving.

Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.

For ten years I was alone, I filled the days with work, with the children, and with a few good friends. And I made a friend of myself. To have a friend you have to be one. You have to learn to like yourself—which usually means getting over a few had habits. I'm sure that I grew a little wiser, and I learned something about faith.

Bloom where you are planted,' the poster reads. But the poster does not tell the whole story. ' plant yourself where you know you can bloom' may well be the poster we all need to see. Or better yet, "Work the arid soil however long it takes until something that fulfills the rest of you finally makes the desert in you bloom.

As Albert Camus put it: "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

God's will for us is what's left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing what we're doing rigth now.

Stability of heart— commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God— is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When

Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes.

We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.

It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment.

after all we had been through, we would still risk death rather than live under communists. The craving for freedom was too strong.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

hurt inside her hardened. She

Joan Hiatt Harlow

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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.