Quotes about Endurance

The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God.

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I had learned that every circumstance in life doesn't have to end happily for the Lord to provide a happy ending.

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.

The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.

The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.