Quotes about Endurance

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is.

Everyone can run the race, but not at the same pace.

Everyone who runs the race can have a special level of grace.

But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.

When a man or woman decides to be a champion for God, they set themselves up for a lot of heat and criticism.

Should it be ours to drain the cup of grieving, even to the dregs of pain, at thy command, we will not falter, thankfully receiving all that is given by thy loving hand. While all the powers of Good aid and attend us, boldly we'll face the future, be what it may. At even, and at morn, God will befriend us, and oh, most surely on each new year's day!

If you have a steel ball, solid steel, the size of this earth, 25,000 miles in circumference, and every one million years a little sparrow would be released to land on that ball to sharpen his beak and fly away only to come back another million years later and begin again, by the time he would have worn that ball down to the size of a BB, eternity would have just begun.

It is not merely that we "glory in the cross" (Gal 6:14), but we draw strength from it.