Quotes About Perseverance

Im Schützengraben bleibt man nicht lange Atheist.

I rubbed my eyes, getting some eyeliner on my fingers. For what I paid for eyeliner, it shouldn't come off that easily.

If you're stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation,

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I bent over to give my hair another shake, and glanced at my boots, along with the several dozen roaches climbing up them. Then I felt them inside the boots, between the suede and the naked skin of my calves. I

I was overworked, underpaid, and socially retarded. But

I can't do it, if I finish that, I'll have to attach a seat belt to the toilet. Maybe an airbag too.

Human beings are incapable of making big decisions when they are being crippled by numerous little decisions. It was why people stayed employed at soul-crushing jobs, because they only had to handle it on a day by day basis, rather than think of it as a forty year wasted chunk of their lives. I

You don't know how many years it took to tone it down to that.

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

There are no spiritual games without pains. I would soon expect farmer just prosper in business who contended himself with sowing fields and never looking at them till harvest as expect a believer to attain much holiness who is not diligent in his Bible reading, his prayers, and his use of Sundays.

The cross sometimes means the afflictions and trials which believers in Christ have to go through if they follow Christ faithfully for their religion's sake.

La fe es el engranaje con la cual gira la victoria. El éxito depende enteramente de la fe.

Cuando vengan los días oscuros, no nos resulte extraño. Más bien recordemos que las lecciones asimiladas en días oscuros nunca las hubiéramos aprendido en los días soleados.

will never hesitate to tell people that inward conflict is no proof that a person is not holy, and that they must not think they are not sanctified because they do not feel entirely free from inward struggle. We will doubtless have such freedom in heaven, but we will never enjoy it in this world.

When days of darkness come upon us, let us not consider it a perplexing thing. Rather, let us remember that lessons are learned on such days that would never have been learned in sunshine. Let us say to ourselves, "This also is for my profit, that I may be a partaker of God's holiness. It is sent in love. I am in God's best school. Correction is instruction. This is meant to make me grow.

La conversión no se trata de poner al convertido en un cómodo sillón y llevarlo sentado al cielo. Es el comienzo de una tremenda batalla, en la cual cuesta mucho obtener la victoria. De allí, la enorme importancia de "calcular el costo".

He believed that Jesus, who met him on the way to Damascus, could give him a hundredfold more than he gave up, and in the world to come everlasting life. By faith he "counted the cost," and saw clearly on which side the balance lay. He believed firmly that to carry the cross of Christ was gain.

Un tercera evidencia es que "afligía cada día su alma justa" (2 P. 2:8).

La santidad verdadera no consiste meramente en creer y sentir, sino en hacer y sobrellevar.

You can give everything you have, and when you're done, you can have more than you began with.

Well, we live by hope.

Right,' said Ben. He leaned fowards, touching my (Kate) arm. 'You're sure you want to go on with this?' 'Are you trying to scare me?' 'You should be scared.' 'That doesn't mean I should stop.