Quotes About Perseverance

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21). Strong believers will run to the Word and not from the Word in times of attack.

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).

Weeds choke the life out of anything good that might grow.

I learned that if the battle is great, the blessing will be greater!

and each spouse in the relationship should believe that the other is worth saving and the marriage is worth fighting for.

The grace factor will be revealed in three areas of your life: grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

He conquers who endures.

And another adventure draws to a close with the classic happy ending. Happy except for the fact that Berk is dead, Aylee is gone, and Gwynn is a soulless vegetable. At least the bad guy got away! Ok, so the ending wasn't so happy, but hey, you can be happy to know nothing else can go wrong!

Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

Sometimes the only way out is through.

I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.

From my own experience, I can tell you that there are mornings when you sit down at the typewriter and knock out three pages in forty-five minutes, and you look at yourself in the toaster over breakfast and your head's all misshapen and pointy, and you say, "Son, you were born with talent.

when your own goddamn brain starts fucking with you, you're not just fucked up a little bit, you're totally fucked up.

A Christian who prays only when they feel like it may survive but they will never thrive. Their vast, innate potential will be stunted because grace needs a little space to take root between the cracks of a person's life.

I feel like God is waiting to see if I am waiting. If he just flooded in with answers and guidance right now, I would not have changed; I would not have learned to wait and trust without the answers and without a road map for the future. So I'm kind of glad that God was silent, because I actually want to wait; I want to prove my mettle to God. I don't necessarily want ease and instant anything any more.

I urged myself to live in a state of complete consciousness, even when that meant pain or boredom." - Pete Hamill.

How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on.

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true