Quotes About Perseverance

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

What do you do when you're in the valley? You remember what God has done. When he comforted you. When he guided you. When he answered your prayer exactly the way you wanted him to. And when he didn't do what you wanted, but sometime later you realized it was exactly what you needed. And you dare to believe that what he's done before, he will do again.

You win when you quit trying.

Pain in the moment, and hope for the future. But sometimes the pain seems to yell, while hope only whispers.

God calls you to stand. Your enemy wants you to fall. So as God's warrior, there are only two acceptable actions. You're either standing or you're getting back up. Even if Satan trips you, you're not down forever. Get back up. Never stay down.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

God didn't make us to be warriors so that we'd be perfect; he made us to be warriors so that we'd fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.

the more God wants to use you, the more likely you'll be tempted to quit.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

So How do you pull yourself out of the Valley? You remember what God has done, You accept what God is doing and You trust what God is going to do.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

Failure is an event, never a person.

Deciding you should get divorced because you've run out of love is like deciding you should sell your car because it has run out of gas. No reasonable person would ever do that. You simply put more gas in your car and go on. If your marriage "love low" light comes on, pull over and start putting love back into your marriage. Once you've filled it back up, then you can go on. SOWING

1. Seek God. 2. Fight fair. 3. Have fun. 4. Stay pure. 5. Never give up.

he made us to be warriors so that we'd fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.

It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest—it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.

This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don't get back up.

don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.

Craig Johnson

Between the thermals, downdrafts, and quirky winds, I wasn't sure how anybody kept the things aloft except with a liberal application of positive thought.

You keep going, and you hope for the best, and sometimes, maybe not very often, your hopes come true.

depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —Albert Camus