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To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

Jul 02, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

Jul 02, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Jun 20, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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.

Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

Jun 14, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Jun 14, 2024 - Fabian Biese>