Quotes About Endurance

When the world beats you down, open up your Bible.

The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public.

Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you. A new you. A stronger you. Strengthened not with the pride of perfection but with the sweet grace of one who knows an intimate closeness with her Lord.

The biblical way to be preserved is to be pressed. And being pressed can certainly feel like being crushed.

Let this unexpected happening point to your strength, not your weakness. Maybe you've been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.

If we place our hope and future in the hands of our unchanging, unflinching God who never leaves us or forsakes us, we'll find healing and freedom. We'll be able to see something on the other side of all the pain. Something good. Something we know will be so wroth whatever it takes to get well. So instead of running from the pain, we embrace it as necessary. We must feel pain to heal the pain. If we never allow ourselves to feel it, we won't acknowledge it's there.

From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise.

Hurting but still hoping—that is the human journey.

But lying in the critical care unit—an abdomen distending more and more with each passing hour, tubes running in and out of a body refusing to function, and a pain pump set to deliver the highest doses but still not relieving the pain—will make death look quite appealing.

When we think the process of longsuffering is unbearable, we must remember it would be deadly for God to put us up on that solid rock before we are strong, firm, and steadfast. And it would be cruel for Him to require us to sing before we have a song.

Run until you can't take another step. Do it not in your strength but in Mine.

God, I am at the end of my strength here. The Bible says Your power is made perfect in weakness. This would be a really good time for that truth to be my reality. Help me see something else besides this temptation looming so large in front of me

willpower. Keep going!

I can do everything through him who gives me strength. —[PHILIPPIANS 4:13]

Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency.

We must invite God into our pain to help us survive the desperate in-between.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Married or not, don't let what breaks your heart destroy your life. Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you.

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

No matter how difficult the trail … we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.

It's a funny thing how hope has a way of always hovering there in the background, even when one's gut says it's over.