“In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it – is true godly patience”
Stephen Charnock
“In your patience possess ye your souls”
Luke 21:19
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“While salvation is a free gift, the ‘winning Christ’ can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege”
– Hudson Taylor
“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ“
– Philippians 3:8
“If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God,
and he that does not live to God, is dead.”
– George MacDonald
“The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.”
Alexander MacLaren
“Remembering without ceasing your work of faith,
and labour of love, and patience (steadfastness) of hope
in our Lord Jesus Christ”
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Wisdom of the Ages 