Quotes About Endurance

Richard Paul Evans

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Richard Porter

Fakat insan sevdiklerinin aras?nda olduktan sonra en kötü ko?ullara bile katlanabilirdi.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate by racially explicit government policies. Although most of these policies are now off the books, they have never been remedied and their effects endure.

From our own strength we cannot bear the least trouble, but by the Spirit's assistance we can bear the greatest.

Two things trouble the peace of Christians very much (1), their weaknesses hanging upon them, and (2) fear of holding out for time to come.

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

I don't think I can take this much longer.

You were burned, you were about to burn, you're still on fire.

A stone on the path means the tea's not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.

People fall down and stay down

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

Tell me we'll never get used to it.

Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting go. Now let it go.

People get used to everything but being dead.

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

Richard Turner

I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold —and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.

Many persecuted believers have thrived in the desert of prison. Perpetua, a third-century Christian who was imprisoned and martyred for her faith, said of her prison cell: "The dungeon became to me as it were a palace, so that I preferred being there to being elsewhere." Do not be fearful of dry times in your spiritual life. Tap into the Bridegroom, seeking only His living water and you will thrive.

So at last when I believed Christianity was dead, I said, "Even so, I will believe in it, and I will weep at its tomb until it rises again, as it surely will.