Quotes About Perseverance

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God's children will one day fall.

When your prayers aren't answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.

Most of what you do to fulfill God's purposes will require acts of faith.

Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength.

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

Together with God you can successfully handle any difficulty.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

We survive by learning from pain

Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him

Pain (2) ...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you can't give up because you're all you have.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

I bought a ticket with the last of my money at the bus station, telling the agent that there certainly seemed to be a long, long road winding to the land of my dreams.

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.

A mood can be a mud puddle to be jumped over.

Just start at page one and write like a son of a bitch." —Jim Harrison

No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything.

cleanly as the plow wounded it, and the scorching sun burned a healing scab over the wound. Keeping intent eyes on both mules and waiting for the fly to bite, Joe was not one man but two. One of them felt a soul-filling