Quotes About Perseverance

The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.

La fidelidad implica aprender a confiar que, más allá del perímetro de la oscuridad, Dios aún reina y no nos ha abandonado, no importa lo que parezca.

27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[149] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." 29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

No, the prayer is essential. I live on the prayers. They alone can strengthen me to fight despair and fatigue.

La Biblia no hace ninguna promesa color rosa acerca de vivir en una primavera eterna. Lo que hace es señalar hacia la fe que nos ayuda a prepararnos para las estaciones de sequía. Vendrán duros inviernos, seguidos por veranos ardientes. No obstante, si las raíces de la fe adquieren la suficiente profundidad para llegar hasta donde se halla el Agua Viva, podremos sobrevivir a los tiempos de sequía y florecer en los tiempos de abundancia.

True followers of God quietly humble themselves and rise again courageously.

But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.

La resistencia no es solo la capacidad para soportar algo difícil, sino también la capacidad para convertirlo en algo glorioso».

There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.

some of the most inspiring stories of faith come from those often considered "losers" by the rest of the world.

a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.

La vida es difícil».

Cada vez que nos aferramos tenazmente a Dios en un momento de dificultad, o sencillamente cada vez que oramos, es posible que esté sucediendo más, mucho más de lo que habríamos podido soñar jamás.

Los seres humanos crecemos al luchar, trabajar y extendernos; en cierto sentido, la naturaleza humana tiene más necesidad de problemas que de soluciones.

He transforms pain, using it to teach and strengthen us, if we allow it to turn us toward him.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken." C.

As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.

Realistic hope permits a dying person to confront reality, but at the same time gives strength to go on living.

the parents of a severely disabled child have no end in sight.

In his list of fruits of the Spirit, Paul includes one that we translate with the archaic word "long-suffering." We would do well to revive that word, and concept, in its most literal form to apply to the problem of long-term pain.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.