Inspirational Quotes on Endurance

“Love cannot think any evil of God, nor endure to hear any speak evil of him, but it must take God's part.”

“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

“O Dieu, entends bien ma prière, ne te cache pas quand je te supplie. Sois attentif et réponds-moi. J'erre sans but, accablé d'inquiétude. Je suis troublé par ce que dit l'ennemi et par l'oppression qu'imposent les méchants. Ils font tomber le malheur sur moi et me poursuivent avec colère. L'angoisse me serre le cœur, et les terreurs de la mort tombent sur moi. Je suis pris de crainte et de tremblement, je suis submergé par l'effroi.”

“Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.”

“Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.”

“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.”

“Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)”

“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.”

“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God' (Hebrews 12:1-2). Jesus was motivated to endure by anticipating the joy of His reward. No amount of hardship and struggle could deprive Him of that anticipation.”