Quotes About Perseverance

Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.

First Peter 4:12 says, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you . . . ." Rise to the occasion—do what the trial demands of you. It does not matter how much it hurts as long as it gives God the opportunity to manifest the life of Jesus in your body.

It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God.

There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Oswald Chambers

When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us--He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.

Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me. When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful—just the everyday activities of life—do I hear God's assurance even in these?

The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you.

what God wants us to do is to "walk by faith." How many of us have set ourselves aside as if to say, "I cannot do anything else until God appears to me"? He will never do it. We will have to get up on our own, without any inspiration and without any sudden touch from God. Then comes our surprise and we find ourselves exclaiming, "Why, He was there all the time, and I never knew it!

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

El ser se extingue cuando se extingue la voluntad de lucha

Hemos nacido en este tiempo y debemos recorrer el camino hasta el final. No hay otro. Es nuestro deber permanecer sin esperanza de salvación en el puesto ya perdido. Permanecer como aquel soldado romano cuyo esqueleto se ha encontrado delante de una puerta en Pompeya que murió porque al estallar la erupción del Vesubio nadie se acordó de licenciarlo. Eso es grandeza. Eso es tener raza. Ese honroso final es lo único que no se le puede quitar al hombre

Kdo m?že dát jednou za rok pr?chod hn?vu," ?ekl Krabat, ten pak vydrží vše, co se mu nap?esrok naloží na h?bet - a toho není ve mlýn? na Blatech, jak budeš mít možnost poznat, práv? málo.

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible." You've bee gnomed

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

So, on the whole, it was well with them, very well; and Patrasche, meeting on the highway or in the public streets the many dogs who toiled from daybreak into nightfall, paid only with blows and curses, and loosened from the shafts with a kick to starve and freeze as best they might — Patrasche in his heart was very grateful to his fate, and thought it the fairest and the kindliest the world could hold.

A little farther on, in the old playing-field, there were the wickets, and the bats, and the jumping poles, and four or five boys, in their shirt sleeves and their straw hats, enjoying their half-holiday, as we had done before them. So life goes on; when one is bowled out, another is ready to step into his shoes, and, no matter how many the ball of death may knock over, the cricket of life is kept up the same, and players are never wanting!

Daily bread," muttered the handsome girl. "It's main and fine what He do gie us, niver a bit o' wheat-loaf mayhap for weeks and weeks togither 1" But she muttered it under her breath, and she did not dare let him hear it. I heard it; but then dogs hear and see a great many things to which men, in their arrogance and their stupidity, arc deaf and blind.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish