Quotes about Persistence
At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving.
— Luke 4:42
Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
— Luke 5:18
but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
— Luke 5:19
And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
— Luke 11:7
I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
— Luke 11:8
So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
— Luke 11:9
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
— Luke 11:10
and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
— Luke 13:11
Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
— Luke 13:33
saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
— Luke 14:30
Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
— Luke 15:8
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
— Luke 18:1