Quotes About Endurance

it has been a beautiful fight still is

Just living until you die is hard work," I said.

the hearts can be removed without killing the tree, but this takes more time).

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

The main thing, Ruby said, was not to get ahead of yourself. Go at a rhythm that could be sustained on and on. Do just as much as you could do and still be able to get up and do again tomorrow. No more, and no less.

Time partially reconciles us to anything.

love is worth doing. No matter how much it hurts.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. —WILSON MIZNER L

Life is difficult. That blunt, three-word statement is an accurate ap praisal of our existence on this planet.

Please cleanse me, even if I must endure hardship or suffer affliction in the process. Grant me the courage to remain steadfast as You work. Grant me patience to endure the process and provide extra encouragement when my patience wears thin. Then let me rejoice when Your temple is again pure. I make the same request as David did so many years ago: Create in me a clean heart, O God (Ps. 51:

The empire of the Pharaohs was old before Rome was a twinkling in Odysseus's eye, wise before China had been discovered, and over and done with before our founding fathers came down from Mount Olympus to give us the Bible and the US Constitution—

We fight on so that something that remembers being human might survive.

So there are two kinds of suffering. One is when we feel we're being pressed down; as though suffering is coming at us from without, as though we're receiving something that's making us suffer. The other kind of suffering is being under, just bearing it, just being it.

Death is agony. There is simply no other way to describe it. It is getting the wind knocked out of you over and over again, and just when you think you have enough strength to take a deep breath, it knocks you down again. There is no break from the pain. It is arduous, unyielding.

Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's grief," said Corrie ten Boom. "It takes away today's strength. It does not enable us to avoid evil, but it makes us incapable of dealing with it when it comes."4

Chet Cunningham

in the darkness, but

I've told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die