Quotes about Persistence

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book.

I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.