Quotes About Perseverance

While it took much longer than I ever anticipated to see my writing efforts pay off, it finally happened so that at the age of forty-three I was my own woman, beholden to no one.

If you act like something's too hard, it will be, he said. You got to believe it's possible.

Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

No matter what you're going through there's no pit so deep that God can't reach in and get you out.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.

God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God's eyes.

If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

We like everything instantaneous. We have the fruit of patience inside, but it is being worked to the outside. Sometimes God takes His time about bringing us our full deliverance. He uses the difficult period of waiting to stretch our faith and to let patience have her perfect work (see James 1:4 KJV). God's timing is perfect. He is never late.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.