Quotes About Perseverance

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).

In the world you will have tribulation.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. James 1:2

Count it all joy…when you fall into various trials (JAMES 1:2).

Something is always better than nothing" no matter how small that "something" is.

Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

Elizabeth George Speare

There was the Dolphin coming up the river with all her sails. The curving tail of the prow was chipped and dull, the hull was battered and knobby with barnacles, the canvas dark and weathered, yet how beautiful she was! In

Elizabeth George Speare

Matt thought, as though he couldn't count the weeks for himself.

Elizabeth George Speare

Day after day Matt tramped the woods alone, trying to shake the doubts that walked beside him like his own shadow.

Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together -- in misery, but happy to not be apart.

The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? 

Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.