Quotes about Persistence
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
— CS Lewis
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
— Jennifer Aniston
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.
— Paulo Coelho
Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
— Oswald Chambers
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
— John Bunyan
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
— DL Moody
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
— Charles Finney
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.
— John Owen
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
— William Carey
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
— Leonard Ravenhill