Quotes About Steadfastness

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

I will be the answer at the end of the line. I will be there for you. Why take the time? In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground. I, I will hold the balance if you can't look down. If it takes my whole life, I won't break. I won't bend. It will all be worth it, worth it in the end because I can only tell you what I know, that I need you in my life. When the stars have all gone out you'll still be burning so bright.

Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have said.

The ultimate challenge is to keep fixing your eyes on Me, no matter what is going on around you.

LOVE YOU WITH an everlasting Love. The human mind cannot comprehend My constancy.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. —PSALM 51:10 NKJV

What does it mean to persevere? It means that we continue to believe, and that we live like believers, which means obediently. It doesn't mean sinlessness; it doesn't mean that we are on some steady and never-failing incline up into pure sanctification; it does not deny stumbling or messy spirituality; it doesn't deny doubt and problems. It simply means that the person continues to walk with Jesus and doesn't walk away from him in a resolute manner.

Yahweh is the sort who sticks with what he is stuck with.

I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him. (Ps. 40:1–3 NIV)

I'm not asking you to make the mud and the mire go away; just make the Rock, Jesus, more evident and beautiful to all. Cause our feet to stand upon Jesus, the only firm foundation in this life and the life to come, in times of great adversity, in times of great prosperity, and in all the in-between times.

Forbearing Father, thank you for documenting the relational failures, foibles, and foolishness of your people. It helps me repent of idolizing the perfect community. It also keeps me from giving up and running away from other Christians. The fact that you've chronicled just how poorly we love one another is a witness to the steadfastness of your love and the depth of our brokenness. We need the gospel every day—every hour.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. (2 Thess. 3:5)

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

pertinacity

Mental stamina is required too. All long-term projects require this ability to keep going after the first excitement, through periods of despondency.

Good old Watson!You are the one fixed point in a changing age.

He who becomes dizzy is lost.

though our hearts break, we cannot flinch...

Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.