Quotes About Perseverance

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy person?

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

When the people whose claims we are considering are told to apply themselves to these tasks they become irritated and feel almost insulted. They

The truest and deepest pathos in this world is not that of suffering but that of brave struggling.

One of the nice things about video games as a metaphor is that you die all the time," he explained. "You play, you play, you play, you die. You play, you play, you die." It's a harmless way of learning "to accept constant loss and defeat over and over again. And it doesn't bother you. You just keep doing it. And that's what investing is.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Jehoshaphat cried when in the throng of his enemies, and the Lord helped him; much more mayest thou promise thyself his succor in thy soul combats.

Fall to the work God sets thee about, and thou engagest his strength for thee. The way of the Lord is strength. Run from thy work, and thou engagest God's strength against thee; he will send some storm or other after thee to bring home his runaway servant. How oft hath the coward been killed in a ditch, or under some hedge, when the valiant soldier stood his ground and kept his place got off with safety and honor?

We are directed to take the helmet of salvation—and this, not for some particular occasion and then hang it by till another extraordinary strait calls us to take it down and use it again—but we must take it so as never to lay it aside till God shall take off this helmet to put on a crown of glory in the room of it.

The praying Christian is the thriving Christian; whereas he that is infrequent or slothful in praying, is a waster.

Here is the necessity of divine armour, to persevere till we have done all. Wherefore, else, bids he them take this armour for this end, if they could do it without?

In a word, Christians, God and angels are spectators, observing how you quit yourselves like children of the Most High; every exploit your faith doth against sin and Satan causeth a shout in heaven; while you valiantly prostrate this temptation, scale that difficulty, regain the other ground, you even now lost out of your enemies' hands.

Mercies should draw, afflictions drive.

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but

To pray always may import as much as to pray in all conditions; that is, in prosperity as well as in adversity. So Calvin takes it: omni tempore perinde valet, atque tam prosperis quâm adversis—it holds at all times equally, and as much in prosperity as in adversity.

We must not spread our sails of profession in a calm, and furl them up when the wind riseth.

And here is all the devil gets; instead of destroying his faith which he aims at, he is the occasion of the refining of it, and thereby adding to its strength.

And I pray, what is our life in this world but a dark night of temptation?

The Christian's life is a continual wrestling. He is, as Jeremiah said of himself, born 'a man of strife.' Or what the prophet [said] to Asa, may be said to every Christian; 'From hence thou shalt have wars:' from thy spiritual birth to thy nat ural death; from the hour when thou first didst set thy face to heaven, till thou shalt set thy foot in heaven.

If all the devil's wits and wiles will not serve him to overcome one single soldier in Christ's camp, much less shall he ever ruin the whole army. These

Dost thou fill thy chest with dirt, and expect to find gold when thou openest it?