Quotes About Perseverance

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

Put legs to your prayers

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.