Quotes About Endurance

The greatest power is often simple patience.

I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.

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.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

And when you can't do nothing else - pray.

Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer.

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.