Quotes About Perseverance

What if we could actually get to the place where we thanked God for letting us face this battle because of the rich treasures we discovered on the battlefield?

And I keep on marching as if this is the way a Christian woman is supposed to live, as if this is the call on my life, as if this is all there is.

Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go" (Joshua 1:9).

Don't miss this point—though the famine phase is hard, it does not have to be void of joy. Look for the joy. It is there. Answered prayers, treasures of wisdom, and the peace of God's provision are waiting for you in this phase. Depending on God brings such joy as I would never know any other way.

I can do everything through him who gives me strength. —[PHILIPPIANS 4:13]

Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency.

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

Oh, dear God, help me trust You beyond what my physical eyes can see. As the winds of all that's uncontrollable whip around me and thrash against me, I need something to ground me. Steady me. Hold me together when circumstances are falling apart. I want to trust You beyond what my eyes can see.

The enemy doesn't take vacations, so we shouldn't take vacations from studying God's Word either. We wouldn't want to go even a few hours without water, certainly not days or weeks, and we should view God's living water for our souls in the same way.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

Everything in me wanted to just cross out that ridiculous 3.5-hour scheduled writing appointment and go eat fries in the midst of colored plastic tubes and screaming kids.

lion looking for someone to devour.

Have you ever had a "worst mom ever" day? Take heart, so have we all. Take my friend's advice. Apologize to your children. Ask God for forgiveness. Get over it and stop letting Satan drag you down. Spend time with the Lord getting a new attitude, and He'll help you leave the dams to the beavers!

Progresa. Solo progresa. Está bien tener reveses y la necesidad de volver a hacerlo. Está bien trazar una línea en la arena y empezar de nuevo… y de nuevo. Solo asegúrate de seguir moviendo la línea hacia delante. Avanza. Da pasitos de bebé, pero al menos da pasos que impidan que te quedes atascada. Entonces vendrá el cambio. Y será bueno.

Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.

I'm no longer at the first cliff where the ground fell out from beneath me. But I'm also not all the way across to solid ground where everyone exhales, exhausted but relieved. No, I'm in the middle, which honestly might be the scariest of all places. Moving ahead and turning back are both equally terrifying.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Married or not, don't let what breaks your heart destroy your life. Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

There is no perfect decision—only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us.

Willpower alone is not enough to bring about this change; start by realizing that you cannot do this alone. If you are a person of faith, use that connection to help you change.

We don't have to know the plan to trust there is a plan. We don't have to feel good to trust there is good coming. We don't have to see evidence of changes to trust that it won't always be this hard.

We were made for victory. Sometimes we just have to find our way to that truth.