Quotes about Endurance

And the human mind endures misfortunes of any kind more easily than prosperity and abundance, as the German proverb puts it: "Strong legs are needed to be able to endure good days.

A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: 1. Teach systematically 2. Have a ready wit 3. Be eloquent 4. Have a good voice 5. Have a good memory 6. Know when to make an end 7. Be sure of his doctrine 8. Venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the Word 9. Suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one

They turn the heart away much more strongly than adversity and want do, as he says in his song (Deut. 32:15): "Having become swollen, fat, and thick, he rebelled"; and (Prov. 1:32): "The prosperity of the foolish destroys them"; as is said also in the German proverb: "You need strong legs to hold up under good days." For man endures evil more easily than good, as the poet says: "Luxury has invaded as a deadlier foe."2

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.