Quotes About Endurance

Los que confían en el Señor renovarán sus fuerzas; volarán como las águilas: correrán y no se fatigarán, caminarán y no se cansarán. (Isaías 40.31 NVI)

Why did he endure all these feelings? Because he knew you would feel them too.

Illustrate stubborn love. Incarnate fidelity.

If today starts to get hectic, take five minutes to be alone with God. If your work gets interrupted, ask God for patience to deal with the interruption and for endurance to finish the task.

Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire. God's love for you does not—will not—end.

In the end it's not the flashy and flamboyant who survive. It is those with steady hands and sober minds.

there are times when hearts grow so hard and ears so dull that God turns us over to endure the consequences of our choices.

Through is a favorite word of Gods... [follow with] (Isa. 43.2)

How we handle our tough times stay with us a long time. (P68)

Yet he never gave up. Bitterness never staked its claim. Anger never metastasized into hatred. His heart never hardened; his resolve never vanished. He not only survived; he thrived.

Anchor your heart to the character of God. Your boat will rock. Moods will come and go. Situations will fluctuate. But will you be left adrift on the Atlantic of despair? No, for you have found a contentment that endures the storm.

The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren't the first person to cry. And you aren't the first person to be helped. Read the story, and remember—the story is yours!

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

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Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.

Life will do anything for a living.

The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.

There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. There are old griefs so proud They never speak a word; They never can be mended. And these nourish the will And keep it iron-hard.

So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

Pero ahora sabía, de un modo en que antes no lo había sabido, que lo que había heredado era vivificante y reparador para mi vida y lo sería hasta el final de mis días o incluso más allá. ... llegué a la conclusión de que si uno es capaz de profundizar lo suficiente, seguro que es capaz de atravesar la roca.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.

Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

All great achievements require time.