Pope Francis Quotes

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

God is with those who persevere.

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.

That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

That's my thing - keep filled with faith. Keep doing what you can do and I believe God will do what you can't do.

No matter how dark it looks, no matter how long it's been, no matter how many people are trying to push you down; if you will stay in faith, God will always take you from Friday to Sunday. He will always complete what He started in you!

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

Nothing will carry you through hardship like a sincere devotion to Christ.

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Let us say with one voice, the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me."

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.