GREAT QUOTES on PERSEVERANCE
"Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems,
we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory."
- Warren Wiersbe
"God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."
- C.S. Lewis
"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."
- Jonathan Edwards
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor."
- Basilea Schlink
"At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found."
- Hudson Taylor
"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."
- George Herbert
"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown."
- William Booth
" 5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come."
St. Paul, 1 Thessalonians 1.