Quotes About Perseverance

When a man or woman decides to be a champion for God, they set themselves up for a lot of heat and criticism.

It's all right to talk to God about your problems. But sometimes you need to talk to your problems about God.

All we have to do is ask and He will give us the wisdom that we need to get through the storm.

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

every troubled time and every troubled person.

from Egypt: "You

In this fallen world, Christians are not called to a life where all choices lead to comfort or safety. We are called to a life of commitment to the One who loves us enough to die for us. The Bible often tells us this commitment will mean trouble and pain. We must draw encouragement from the words of Jesus when He said, "Do

Should it be ours to drain the cup of grieving, even to the dregs of pain, at thy command, we will not falter, thankfully receiving all that is given by thy loving hand. While all the powers of Good aid and attend us, boldly we'll face the future, be what it may. At even, and at morn, God will befriend us, and oh, most surely on each new year's day!6

Quite often the Lord uses the adversity in our lives as a lens through which He can be seen! In the process of it all, He is developing our character so that we can be worthy reflectors of His glory. Paul teaches us that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trials and suffering can the soul be strengthened.

Whatever happens, remember that death is not the end; rather, it is just a temporary separation of the soul from the body.

The outward man is perishing; the inward man is being renewed daily. •?The light affliction is today's problems; the eternal glory is tomorrow's promise. •?The things that are seen are temporary; the things that are not seen are eternal.

David Jeremiah

Sometimes it is only through pain that we become who God wants us to be.

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. —1 JOHN 5:4, NIV

Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). The more aware we are of His impending return, the more motivated we'll be in our work for Him in these last days.

Do not expect to master the Bible in a day, or a month, or a year. Rather expect often to be puzzled by its contents. It is not all equally clear. Great men of God often feel like absolute novices when they read the Word. The apostle Peter said that there were some things hard to understand in the epistles of Paul (2

James teaches us that we can be victors instead of victims, if we will mentally prepare ourselves by: 1. celebrating the reason behind our trials; 2. calculating the results of our trials; 3. calling on God's resources in our trials; 4. considering our reactions to our trials; 5. contemplating the reward of our trials.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." (Revelation 12:10–11)

If you have a steel ball, solid steel, the size of this earth, 25,000 miles in circumference, and every one million years a little sparrow would be released to land on that ball to sharpen his beak and fly away only to come back another million years later and begin again, by the time he would have worn that ball down to the size of a BB, eternity would have just begun.

Out of the suffering of God's people have come some of the greatest triumphs. When circumstances look darkest, God has the opportunity to shine the brightest.

The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible.

Failure sucks, but instructs.

I know you're drowning. You'll keep sinking for a while, but there will come a point when you'll hit bottom. Then you'll have a decision to make. Do you stay there or push off and start to rise again?

At the end of every bad road, a good road begins. It is always so.