Quotations from Scripture and Other Writings on Endurance
Bible Quotations on Endurance
For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever,…
Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. His line shall continue forever, and his throne endure before me like the sun. It shall be established forever like the moon, an enduring witness in the skies.
Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their home in peace.
The human spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit—who can bear?
Bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation—I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Can your courage endure, or can your hands remain strong in the days when I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
Truly the day of the Lord is great; terrible indeed—who can endure it?
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath.
…and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
By your endurance you will gain your souls.
And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy. But they have no root, and endure only for a while; then, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
But as for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus,…
When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, …
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. The saying is sure: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him;…
As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.
And we want each one of you to show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope to the very end, so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. … For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
…and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.
Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?
Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God’s approval.
I, John, your brother who shares with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
If you are to be taken captive, into captivity you go; if you kill with the sword, with the sword you must be killed. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
All people, even their torturers, marveled at their courage and endurance, and they became the cause of the downfall of tyranny over their nation. By their endurance they conquered the tyrant, and thus their native land was purified through them.
For we, through this severe suffering and endurance, shall have the prize of virtue and shall be with God, on whose account we suffer;
He said, “Tyrant, they are splendid favors that you grant us against your will, because through these noble sufferings you give us an opportunity to show our endurance for the law.”
O mother of the nation, vindicator of the law and champion of religion, who carried away the prize of the contest in your heart! O more noble than males in steadfastness, and more courageous than men in endurance! Just as Noah’s ark, carrying the world in the universal flood, stoutly endured the waves, so you, O guardian of the law, overwhelmed from every side by the flood of your emotions and the violent winds, the torture of your sons, endured nobly and withstood the wintry storms that assail religion.
My children, endure with patience the wrath that has come upon you from God. Your enemy has overtaken you, but you will soon see their destruction and will tread upon their necks.
Secular Quotations on Endurance
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.
He conquers who endures.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth, in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we’ve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.
Small change, small wonders—these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There’s no way to get context or perspective, ….. Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
