Inspirational Quotes on Endurance

“And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.”

“In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.”

“I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.”

“Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear”

“Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.”

“Stand like a beaten anvil. It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.”

“To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”

“Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go.”

“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.”

“The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.”

“Some saints have been sanctified by the easy and determined practice of all the virtues, but there are others who owe their sanctification to having endured with perfect resignation the privation of every virtue.”

“It is prosperity that we cannot endure.”

“Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.”

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”

“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.”

“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.”

“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”

“That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.”

“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.”

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”