Quotes About Endurance

over, every minute of every day, for a whole month. But nobody could do that without going mad with frustration.

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

When do we give up, Julie?" he said. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe you can't even if you want to.

God is not in the business of making our lives all sweetness and light. He is in the business of chipping away our exteriors so that the image of Christ can emerge. The most painful thing He could take us through is motivated by His love and orchestrated by His power. Under God's authority and by God's grace, you are no longer a victim. Instead, God is using the trial to form you into the image of Christ Jesus.

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

One reason many people never see God working in their lives is because they never hang in long enough for God to show his power.

The Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph remained forgotten for two years. Both were equally true.

Wayne Thomas Batson

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

Tell My children, that there is never a testimony without first a TEST. "And that there is always a test before a promotion," He said softly. "The greater the test; the greater the promotion. "Oh, tell My children not to give up, beloved. "No matter how fierce the trial gets. Never give up.

In a rush, Joan and Timothy and the log cabin and the prayers and even those tough little pieces of beachglass came into my mind, reminding me that the point is to endure, not to break. (71)

Wendy Corsi Staub

capable heart. As has happened countless times, he lost me for months on end and not only never complained, he immersed himself in the story, escorted and supported me, provided me with endless pots of tea and emergency gin and tonics. Sorry for the nightmares. Wendy Holden

And she never has.

If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.

At the end of the world will be bacteria, cockroaches, and Peeps.

I reach under Mongo, and my hand lands on something squishy. I grab hold of it, and pull out an orange bunny Peep from a long ago Easter. Even I wouldn't eat it now. The scary thing is, it still looks perfectly fine. Dusty, but fine. I think Dr. Grady was wrong. At the end of the world will be bacteria, cockroaches, and Peeps.

You just adapted to oppression and rotted along with it.