Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.

[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.

If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

This is the time that tries men’s souls, and many probably will be found wanting.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.