Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.
– F.B. Meyer
Temptation | Endurance | Weakness
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
– John Foxe
Persecution | Perseverance | Endurance
Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
– Alistair Begg
Endurance
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
– William Barclay
Endurance
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
– Oswald Chambers
Perseverance | Endurance
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Faith | Endurance
The only true conqueror who shall be crowned in the end is he who continues until war’s trumpet is blown no more…. Christian, wear your shield close to your armor and cry earnestly to God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.
– Alistair Begg
Endurance
To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.
– George Mueller
Faith | Trials | Endurance
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians | Change | Endurance
Love cannot think any evil of God, nor endure to hear any speak evil of him, but it must take God’s part.
– William Gurnall
Love | Endurance
I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.
– David Brainerd
Evangelism | Endurance
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering | Endurance | The Cross
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
– Thomas Fuller
Suffering | Bitterness | Endurance
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
– Thomas Aquinas
Courage | Endurance
It is prosperity that we cannot endure.
– Martin Luther
Prosperity | Endurance
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
– Thomas Fuller
Patience | Suffering | Endurance
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we to our passions, that we suffer more to insure perdition than salvation.
– Hannah More
Virtue | Apathy | Endurance
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
– Rick Warren
Integrity | Humility | Endurance
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
– John Wesley
Suffering | Endurance
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Adversity | Life | Endurance
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
– Phillips Brooks
Endurance
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
– Philip Yancey
Endurance