Quotes about Steadfastness

He was not easily moved and tossed up and down, but loved to be constant

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain the pond, that hold our own inside person, is something that can't be destroyed, a foundation that keeps all the water from sinking back into the earth. Something is there, something we need, when we come to rest, when all is lost.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

The blessed Gospel of Christ is what I hold; that do I believe, that have I taught, and that will I never revoke!

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

The only cure for fear is for the eye to remain steadfastly fixed on the Lord. To be occupied with our circumstances and surroundings is fatal to our peace. It was so in the case of Peter as he started to walk on the waters to Christ. While he kept his gaze upon the Lord he was safe; but as soon as he became occupied with the winds and the waves, he began to sink.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.