Quotes About Endurance

But regrettably, whether through a failure of nerve, or out of false optimism — hoping for improvement in an incurable condition — many people end up making the process of dying more protracted than it has to be.

Gary and Betsy Ricucci point out, "Our Lord has sovereignly ordained that our refining process take place as we go through difficulties, not around them. The Bible is filled with examples of those who overcame as they passed through the desert, the Red Sea, the fiery furnace and ultimately the cross. God doesn't protect Christians from their problems—he helps them walk victoriously through their problems."1

MARRIAGE HELPS US TO DEVELOP THE CHARACTER OF GOD HIMSELF AS WE STICK WITH OUR SPOUSES THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD.

BUILDING A SACRED HISTORY TOGETHER TEACHES US TO BE PERSISTENT IN DOING GOOD, EVEN WHEN WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.

Getting fit can be an arduous, even painful process; living fit is filled with much joy.

The same conclusion could be made about marriage. Every marriage has sorrows. Every marriage has trials. There isn't a shared bedroom in this country where tension doesn't occasionally or perhaps frequently lift its snarling head. Many a pillow has been a solemn receptacle for soul-felt tears, cried late at night or even all throughout the day. We don't get to choose which sorrows or trials we are called to bear, only that we must endure them.

2 Thessalonians 3:5: "May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

The desire for ease, comfort, and stress-free living is an indirect desire to remain an "unseasoned," immature Christian. Struggle makes us stronger; it builds us up and deepens our faith.

Marriage is the greatest test in the world . . . but now I welcome the test instead of dreading it. It is much more than a test of sweetness of temper, as people sometimes think; it is a test of the whole character and affects every action. T. S. Eliot

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. —VINCE LOMBARDI

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.

the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

life goes on ad nauseam.

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

Never, Never, Never Say NEVER

An invulnerable armor is patience.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin

And gradually we will rot like old ships or trees But keep Pain far from Me o Lord

Season of Joy: She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year.

What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one.

All those times I wanted to quit, slip out through the escape hatch and disappear without a trace. But you weren't having it, no, you and your stubborn love.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but then again I wasn't on that particular job.