Quotes About Endurance

But the big courage is the cold-blooded kind, the kind that never lets go even when you're feeling empty inside, and your blood's thin, and there's no kind of fun or profit to be had, and the trouble's not over in an hour or two but lasts for months and years.

It's a great life if you don't weaken

The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

The valley of Humiliation.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

inch by inch will make it cinch ,yard by yard will make it hard.

Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary.

The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.

The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.

perhaps, now he finds more joy in life, having survived

John C. Wright

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.

that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

It is clear that bearing the cross patiently does not mean that we harden ourselves or do not feel any sorrow; according to the old notion of the Stoic philosophers that a greathearted man is someone who has laid off his humanity, and who is not touched by adversity and prosperity, and not even by joy and sorrow, but who acts like a cold rock.