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
Perseverance | Victory | Change
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
Perseverance | Judging
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
– William Booth
Perseverance | Prayer
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
Perseverance
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
– Zig Ziglar
Perseverance
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Perseverance | Time
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
– Helen Keller
Perseverance | Faithful
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
– Hannah More
Perseverance | Goals
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
Laziness | Perseverance
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
– George Herbert
Perseverance
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Perseverance
What I had was heart and faith and I said I’m going to do this for every convict alive and I’m going to make sure the world knows just because we fell one time doesn’t mean we can’t get up and let our light shine.
– Duane Chapman
Faith | Perseverance
We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Perseverance | Patience | Trials
At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
– Hudson Taylor
Suffering | Perseverance
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Perseverance
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
– Robert Leighton
Perseverance
While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight-I’ll fight to the very end!
– William Booth
Perseverance
To me, it has been a source of great comfort and strength in the day of battle, just to remember that the secret of steadfastness, and indeed, of victory, is the recognition that “the Lord is at hand.”
– Duncan Campbell
Perseverance | Evangelism | Victory
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
Perseverance | The Cross
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
– C.S. Lewis
Perseverance | Repentance
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
– Helen Keller
Perseverance
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
Each stage of the believer’s walk possesses its particular hazard. The new life within us wages a constant war against all which opposes its growth. During the physical stage, it is a war against sins; in the soulish phase, it is a battle against the natural life; and lastly, on the spiritual level, it is an onslaught against the supernatural enemy.
– Watchman Nee
PerseveranceVSatan | Growth
To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.
– Ole Hallesby
Prayer | Perseverance
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
– Ravi Zacharias
Perseverance
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
– George Whitefield
Perseverance
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
– Zig Ziglar
Perseverance | Failure
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
– Thomas a Kempis
Humility | Perseverance | Overcoming
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
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
– George Whitefield
Perseverance | Struggles
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
– Zig Ziglar
Perseverance | Failure
“I will” is no word for man. There is a far diviner one, “I ought.” Bow passion to reason, reason to conscience, and conscience to God, and then be as resolute and determined as you choose.
– Alexander MacLaren
Perseverance
I am tired in the Lord’s work, but not tired of it.
– George Whitefield
Perseverance
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
– George Whitefield
Prayer | Perseverance
There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.
– Catherine Booth
Perseverance | The Future
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
– Zig Ziglar
Perseverance
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Perseverance | Goals | Sacrifice
We reach a certain stage of fellowship with Christ, in spiritual apprehension and moral attainment, and find great joy in it. But this seems to fade, until we become conscious that we are called to something higher. The Lord is gone before us to prepare the next resting-place. Then everything depends upon our response. We may stay where we are, becoming more and more torpid in spirit. Or we may, in Paul’s phrase, “press on.” If we do this, we find the Lord meeting us and leading us to the next resting-place.
– William Temple
Perseverance
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
– Thomas Fuller
Perseverance | Fear
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development–
– C.S. Lewis
Achievement | Perseverance
We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
– John R. Mott
Prayer | Perseverance
I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times, there is simply no other way.
– Jim Cymbala
Perseverance
Perseverance in prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance but rather laying hold of God’s willingness. Our sovereign God has purposed to sometimes require persevering prayer as the means to accomplish His will.
– William Thrasher
Perseverance | Prayer
We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible.
– F.B. Meyer
Perseverance
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
– Helen Keller
Perseverance | Goals | Power
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Perseverance | Healing
Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
– George Whitefield
Service | Comfort | Perseverance
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Perseverance | Faith
If you’re running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you’re trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you’ll find that no job is all that intimidating.
– Chuck Swindoll
Perseverance
To continual watchfulness and prayer ought to be added continual employment. For grace flies a vacuum as well as nature; and the devil fills whatever God does not fill.
– John Wesley
Perseverance
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
– Charles Wesley
Perseverance | Fire
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
– Zig Ziglar
Perseverance
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
– John Newton
Perseverance
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
– William Law
Jesus | Perseverance | Change
There is a difference between a fleshly stubbornness and a godly perseverance. The former insists on getting one’s will done in heaven, and the latter determines to get God’s will done on earth.
– William Thrasher
Stubbornness | Perseverance
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
– Isaac Watts
Perseverance | Circumstances
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Perseverance | Victory
You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Perseverance
Since the enemy focuses particular attention on the spirit, how necessary for spiritual believers to keep their own spirit in its normal state and frequently exercise it as well. Their mind must be kept perfectly calm without any disturbance; their physical senses too must be maintained in a quiet balance without agitation.
– Watchman Nee
Perseverance | Satan
We need to give our total focus to the business of reaching this world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and stop running down meaningless rabbit trails that get our focus off of our heavenly purpose.
– Jerry Falwell
Evangelism | Perseverance
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
– Martin Luther
Perseverance
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two-common sense and perseverance.
– Owen Feltham
Perseverance
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
– George Herbert
Perseverance | Helping
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
– Martin Luther
Perseverance
God has given us much in these last days, and where much is given much will be required.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Perseverance
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven | Perseverance
‘Tis not for man to trifle; life is brief, and sin is here. We have no time to sport away the hours; all must be earnest in a world like ours.
– Horatius Bonar
Life | Sin | Perseverance
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
– Helen Keller
Perseverance
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
– Adoniram Judson
Prayer | Perseverance
Oh, how we should guard against whatever is extreme and guard against misunderstanding in spiritual doctrine. We need not fear being radical in obeying the Lord, that is for sure; nor do we need to guard against being extreme in denying the works of the flesh. But most vigilant must we be that we do not be led to any extremes through misconception.
– Watchman Nee
Perseverance | Satan | Doctrine
Let a man begin with an earnest “I ought,” and if he perseveres, by God’s grace he will end in the free blessedness of “I will.” Let him force himself to abound in small acts of duty, and he will, by and by, find them the joyous habit of his soul.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Perseverance | Joy
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
– Hosea Ballou
Perseverance
When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God’s bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.
– Richard Sibbes
Prayer | Perseverance
America has, over the centuries, learned that respect for our country is garnered by firmness and resolve, not by tribute or obeisance (submission).
– Judge Roy Moore
America | Perseverance
Dead fish go with the stream, living ones against it.
– William Tiptaft
Perseverance
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes. George Mueller never gives up!
– George Mueller
Prayer | Perseverance
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
– Samuel Rutherford
Perseverance | The Cross
Most true is it that what costs little is worth little! A religion which costs us nothing, and consist in nothing but hearing sermons, will always prove at last to be a useless thing.
– J. C. Ryle
Perseverance
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.
– Rick Warren
Perseverance
Nothing is yet in its true form.
– C.S. Lewis
Perseverance
In many things a comprehensive survey of a subject is the shortest way of getting at a precise knowledge of a particular division of it.
– Charles Hodge
Perseverance
God uses the wicked to strengthen the resolve of the righteous.
– Woodrow Kroll
Perseverance
If young converts wish to maintain their religious life strong, fresh, and secure, they must throw the whole of themselves into it; they must hold nothing back.
– Gipsy Smith
Perseverance
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Perseverance
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
– Francis de Sales
Patience | Perseverance
The hungry man needs no help to teach him how to beg.
– William Gurnall
Perseverance
Are you still diligently living for God and serving Him, even in these last days? Now is not the time to ease up, but to charge forward and continue living for the Lord.
– Paul Chappell
Perseverance
Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
– Charles H. Brent
Prayer | Perseverance
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Perseverance | Attitude
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Perseverance | Justice
There is a Sense of Sight in the religious nature. Neglect this, leave it undeveloped, and you never miss it. You simply see nothing. But develop it and you see God.
– Henry Drummond
Perseverance
I thought of a passage from the book of Jeremiah 29:11-13: “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord.” It irked me that too often women are made to feel guilty for seeking the next open door.
– Sarah Palin
Perseverance
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
– Thomas a Kempis
Suffering | Perseverance | The Cross
That will be the position I will be in as long as I’m on earth–that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid out for me.
– Sarah Palin
Perseverance
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
– Thomas a Kempis
Perseverance | Struggles
When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.
– Jack Hyles
Perseverance
Jesus, as He was going up the hill, fell beneath the load. Loss of blood, breaking of heart, weary in body, blind from his own blood that came from a crown of thorns. And Jesus said “I can’t make it any further.” Yet He climbed on up to Calvary and stretched out his arms as he hung on the cross, and said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” He went on when He couldn’t go on. He finished it when He couldn’t, but He did.
– Lester Roloff
Salvation | Perseverance
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to [put to death] the indwelling power of sin.
– John Owen
Perseverance | Sin
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
– George Herbert
Perseverance
We can catch the Spirit of Christ and zealously and enthusiastically go out each day determined to serve God and be what we ought to be! Stay on the firing line!
– Shelton Smith
Service | Perseverance | Zeal