Quotes About Perseverance

I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip, but found I didn't seem to have any muscles in it.

I know what is wrong. You haven't decided what you want. She'd underlined this many times. Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. ? Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me.

With a drunkard father who neglected his business, how could they ever hope to have education and care they deserve? ....I want to have them not smatterers intoxicated with superficial knowledge, but hard students and deep thinkers...

Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.

The Devil is vicious, but he's not victorious.

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.

Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's impossible.

On the other side of every hardship is a resurrection.

Weak moments don't make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith.

God won't give you more than you can handle." But that's not actually in the Bible. God does say He won't allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear and that He always provides a way out (1 Corinthians 10:13). But that's not the same as God not giving us more than we can handle. He sometimes will allow more and more and more.

The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (James 1:2–4)

I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.

When the world beats you down, open up your Bible.

Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.

The olive tree is such a beautiful reminder that this isn't how it's going to be forever. On the other side of the harsh wind is fruit. On the other side of the process of being broken and waiting is a useful heart free of bitterness. On the other side of being pressed and crushed is oil . . . the most valuable part of me set free to emerge.

Lord, give them enough hurts to keep them human and enough failures to keep their hands clenched tightly in Yours.

Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you. A new you. A stronger you. Strengthened not with the pride of perfection but with the sweet grace of one who knows an intimate closeness with her Lord.

I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you. What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?

When we know Christ, it should show in our overflow, regardless of our relative success or discouragement in the face of rejection.

So I fight for her. Not because we will reconnect. We haven't. And we might not. Not because she's right. Not because I'm right. I fight for her simply because I want to stay right in step with honoring God.

The biblical way to be preserved is to be pressed. And being pressed can certainly feel like being crushed.