Quotes About Perseverance

Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.

If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.

So they were tied up, wearing robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and they were thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.

And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.

Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the kingís command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.

As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.

So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”

When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”

However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.