Quotes About Perseverance

I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

O cattiva Proserpina, come puoi tollerare che invano sian versate tante lacrime amare?...

A dokÄ…d wyroku   Mars nie uczyni, nie ustÄ™puj kroku.

He caught his breath, not because of her bedraggled appearance, but rather because of the way she stood, so straight and tall. Courageous.

Until then we must carry on and have courage.

Malheur ne vient jamais seul.

There are a lot of things we don't have in life, but time is not one of them. Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name, to produce a body of work that says, "This is how I saw the world." Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!

One resolution to the habitual pattern of withdrawal and surrender is to realize that their life doesn't get any better when they pull inward and give up.

Life goes on, even when you think it can't. Even when you don't especially want it to.

Never mind being first. If you want to count for something, be the last of your kind.

Without suffering there is no struggle, without struggle no victory, without victory no crown.

Without suffering there is no struggle, without struggle no victory, without victory no crown." Maria van Beethoven (Beethoven's mom)

Hij heeft gebeden en gesmeekt. Hij heeft nachtenlang op zijn knieën gelegen. Het heeft niet geholpen. Dat rampzalige stuk ellende daarboven is zo doof als een rotsblok.

She closed her eyes and shook her head. I was fairly certain she was praying—whether it was for strength or a vial of untraceable poison, I wasn't certain.

Ida Belle nodded. "All sorts of things rose out of the ground during Edgar. Why, my mother's coffin popped straight up out of the grave and cruised down Main Street. I always said you couldn't keep Moter down

It's what we do after all that's been done to us that matters.

We're all broken. Some of us are just in more pieces. It's how we handle it that makes us brave, and from where I'm sitting, you're the bravest person I've ever met.

Life has a way of taking the joy out of living if you let it," Adelaide said. "I've seen so many couples just like you two get beaten down by responsibility and tragedy. And unfortunately, it's usually only one of them that keeps it all together. Then the one who got off easy complains about the lack of attention while the one who's been juggling all the balls resents having no help.

When you sat in the dark every day, it was hard to know how much time passed.