Quotes About Endurance

Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

When you have worn out shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.

Features well cured make us strong.

The Hero is not fed on sweets Daily his own heart he eats

So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

Real gold fears no fire

If your faith is based on lack of affliction, it's on the brink of extinction and is only a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call away from collapse. Token faith will not survive suffering. Nor should it.

any faith that leaves us unprepared for suffering is a false faith that deserves to be abandoned. Genuine

1 Corinthians 15:58 as follows: "Let nothing move you as you busy yourselves in the Lord's work. Be sure that nothing you do for him is ever lost or ever wasted.

I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish

You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help you through when you've done all you can do. If you can't cope, I will dry your eyes I will fight your fight, I will hold you tight and I wont let go

Cause when push comes to shove, You taste what you're made of. You might bend till you break, Cause it's all you can take. On your knees, you look up, Decide you've had enough. You get mad, you get strong, Wipe your hands, shake it off. And you stand...

In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

How do we build root systems capable of weathering every storm that seeks to draw us into the temporary and the profane?

suffering" (Hebrews 2:10). I have often pondered this text. How is One who is already