Quotes About Endurance

Reippaasti eteenpäin, älkää menettäkö toivoa.

This who wish to go on living can always manage to survive whatever obstacles there may be. That is splendid of them, and I dare say that what people call the glory of mankind is comprised of just such a thing. But I am convinced that dying is not a sin.

Although my body was useless, out of what felt like desperation, I acted out a hateful, scathing punishment. There were days when each time I lowered the hoe, I would groan, "Die! Just die and end it! Die! Die and end it all!" I planted 600 sweet potato vines.

Criticism is the fuel by which the vehicle of success runs.

Health and strength is above all gold.

No amount of darkness can ever put out the smallest flicker of light.

Quitting is the only thing that really brings permanent failure.

The downfall of a man, is not the end of his life.

Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

The heart was made to be broken.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength.

If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.

Patience is not the same as indifference; patience conveys the idea of someone who is tremendously strong and able to withstand all assaults. Having the vision of God is the source of patience because it gives us God's true and proper inspiration. Moses endured, not because of his devotion to his principles of what was right, nor because of his sense of duty to God, but because he had a vision of God.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint, and the lasting remembrance of our lives is of the Lord, not of us.

Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

God gives us a vision, and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that so many of us give up and faint. Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow

If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.