Quotes about Endurance

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it. As I reflect on my own experience and that of many others far wiser than I, God seems willing to help that process along.

Grace grows best in winter.

Mother Teresa. According to her own journal, she was in her dark night more or less from 1948 until near the time of her death in 1997.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

If you follow this advice and God so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people can go home in peace.”

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.