197 Quotes About Perseverance

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

What I had was heart and faith and I said I'm going to do this for every convict alive and I'm going to make sure the world knows just because we fell one time doesn't mean we can't get up and let our light shine.

We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Since the enemy focuses particular attention on the spirit, how necessary for spiritual believers to keep their own spirit in its normal state and frequently exercise it as well. Their mind must be kept perfectly calm without any disturbance; their physical senses too must be maintained in a quiet balance without agitation.

We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times, there is simply no other way.