Quotes About Perseverance

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.

I also think you should take care of yourself. You can crack up a little when these things go on for so long. You've got to bring a healthy self in here. That will help him most. He needs to feel your strength. And you need to do what you have to keep it.

You know, if I've learned anything in my life, it's this: you can push away everything but love. It will not leave. It will wait. Unto death, it will wait. You might as well accept it. You might as well give it freely, too—even more than freely. Anything else is pure exhaustion.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief.

We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

You couldn't keep up with life. It was like fabric running through a sewing machine, everything slipping through your fingers and moving away from you.

philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances, is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same!

For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was hard—more than once, I literally had not time for even a bathroom break. (My husband never believed me about this, but it was true.) Never mind that I had to work on holidays and every other weekend and on people's birthdays, my own included; I loved the job.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Father Hewett once told me that a saint is a sinner who keeps getting up.

With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and fix you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

To live out God's plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Faith is not a hothouse plant that must be shielded from wind and rain, so delicate that it has to be protected, but it's like the sturdy oak which becomes stronger with every wind that blows upon it. An easy time weakens faith, while strong trials strengthen it.

We cannot see beyond the door, we know not what he hath in store, we can but bow our hearts and pray, for strength to serve Him day by day

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.