Quotes About Endurance

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus. (Rom. 15:5)

How we long for the day when words like cancer, dementia, and heart disease will no longer appear in our vocabulary. Until that day, we unabashedly and earnestly pray for healing, and we trust you for all-surpassing peace and more-than-sufficient grace.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Cor. 10:13)

Having loved his own who were in the world, he [Jesus] loved them to the end. (John 13:1 NIV)

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. (2 Cor. 4:7–10)

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. (Ps. 119:71 NIV)

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

Time tries the troth in everything.

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

... but the longest day hath its evening.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.

Time is the best avenger.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

Never is an awfully long time.

Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

It is truly one day at a time.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.