Quotes About Perseverance

I've been doing this for 50 years now and instead of retiring I'm busier than ever, though perhaps not as fast at getting things done. It's all terrifically interesting and very satisfying.

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Faith is not always about having positive emotional feelings toward God or life.

While I don't have to leave home to find God's oasis, I do have to search for it, pursuing God in prayer and trusting Him to take care of me when all other hope is gone. He promised that "If...you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29).

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

As long as we have breath we can hope, can't we?

We show our faith in God when we keep moving forward even when our prayers aren't being answered. It's the highest form of praise to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn't seem that way.

All these troubles you've been having aren't a punishment from God. He wants to use them to draw you closer to himself.

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.

The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.

The only way to grow in faith is to put your faith to the test. You must place yourself in His hands and let Him prove himself faithful. Unless you make up your mind to trust Him, you'll never know that Yahweh is faithful.

His questions will make his faith stronger in the end.

It's the highest form of praise," Abba had said, "to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn't seem that way.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.

Her people could trust God no matter what. Even

God had told the survivors of Sodom and Gomorrah not to look back after they'd been rescued from death and destruction, and if Jo's family continued to gaze into the past, they were going to become stuck in place like pillars of salt, too.

I do not know how long 'twill be, nor what the future holds for me, but this I know, if Jesus leads me, I shall get home someday . . .

Hashem may not answer our prayers the way we want him to," he said, clearing his throat. "He did not deliver Joseph from prison right away. But Hashem was there with Joseph, even in hype silence

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift...

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once I understand that my enemy is never going to lay down arms and sign a peace treaty with, I would be wise to remain on full alert at all times.