Quotes About Perseverance

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it.

Christians today have more in common with the Israelites wandering through a lonely and threatening desert or exiled to a hostile land than with Paul and most other New Testament writers. The Old Testament doesn't speak in the booming voice of imminent triumph. It speaks of generation after generation of the faithful and not so faithful, of successes and failures, of God's presence and God's absence.

Grace grows best in winter.

Mother Teresa. According to her own journal, she was in her dark night more or less from 1948 until near the time of her death in 1997.

Perhaps her long dark night fueled her life, where she kept moving anyway, as an act of trust so deep it cannot be rationally explained—and indeed would look foolish if anyone tried. And the result was about as clear a Jesus movement as you can point to in recent history. Mother Teresa learned

I am amazed and encouraged by those who have lived through these moments of hell on earth and have continued on in the life of faith anyway. They have something to teach people like me: no matter what we think we know, no matter how sure we happen to think we are, suffering is the place where our sense of certainty about God's ways fades like a dream and forces us to consider that what we know may not be as central to our faith as we might think.

When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?

Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

I knew I'd get stick

But rocks falling on our heads can't happen anymore," Alik insisted. "We're not fucking dumbasses like the dinosaurs; we're here to stay. It's Darwin.

It's always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.

We fight them in a thousand small ways each day, my young friend. That is how decent people will triumph in the end.

but whereas her contemporaries were thickening out, ready for their century of toil on the land, she remained slim and agile.

Kysandra turned to the third victim. "Prime Minister?" she said in surprise. "No, I stole his body. Don't worry about this; everything is backed up. I'll re-life later. Just get us back…Oh, bollocks, here we go again." His chest juddered as blood gushed out of his mouth; then his body went limp.

Always trust in proven survivors.

We must know that we can do what we have to do.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee

Hope doesn't die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.

There was being a whore, and then there was just plain debasing yourself—but it had paid off.

Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.