Faithful Endurance Quotes

Suffering saints are living seed.

The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.

The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.

Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who suffer death for the sake of faith in Christ are martyrs; but also those who die because of their observance of His commandments.

The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.