Quotes About Endurance

Eugene H. Peterson

A Christian is a person who decides to face and live through suffering.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

The longer we suffer, the more we dwell on suffering – eventually suffering and the thought of suffering eclipse each other entirely…

An argument for or against suicide? One lives, in spite of life.

How are you?" "Good–" "Give it time…

L'attesa é lunga, Il mio sogno de ti non é finito (The wait is long, My dream of you is not ended)

No medical student relishes the idea of having to learn a subject over and over again.

Sonata," he says, "means 'sounding together.' It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until one wins, in the resolution. It is a beautiful form, it has endured into this century.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

Mother: "I'm amazed that more people don't commit suicide. They just keep on living. It's so hard and they just keep doing it." Useful

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

People who've suffered don't have time to grumble.

He was covered with whip marks, oozing blood. They had burned his fingernails and toenails with the flame of candles. It took him many days to recover.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

As a player that has played this game, I know, at the end of the day I've had numerous amount of surgeries, and the doctors released me at numerous amount of times to go and play. But a lot of those times didn't mean go and play against the best in the world right now, but to get yourself ready to compete again.

We must be relentless and resilient.