Persistence
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Achievement is predicated upon perseverance in accordance with the Father's plan for finite progress and personality development. 115:7.2
Always pray with persistence, seeking wisdom and discernment in your requests, never becoming discouraged in the process. 144:2.4
Believers persist in well-doing, undaunted by obstacles that challenge the exertions of kingdom building. 156:5.21
Persistence in the face of the evils of inaction is the key to unlocking one's true potential and finding the way to escape from personal sorrow and defeat. 130:6.3
You must have industriously exhausted human capacity for adjustment. 91:9.3
Jesus persisted in restating his message to free his apostles from the idea of offering animal sacrifices for religious duty, never growing weary in his teaching. 141:4.3
We regret the loss of the magnificent persistence of primitive man, a trait that bordered on grandeur and sublimity. 64:7.20
Persistence in seeking the Father's will, like the parable of the loaves, leads to receiving the bread of life from the willing hands of the Father in heaven. 144:2.3
Persist in prayer, for your persistence is not to win favor with God but to change your earth attitude and enlarge your soul’s capacity for spirit receptivity. 144:2.5
To validate prayers, possess cosmic stamina and sincerely face universe reality. 91:9.2
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Appropriate gifts to son 144:2.4 — Mt 7:9-11; Lk 11:11-13.
- Be not weary in well doing 156:5.21 — Ga 6:9; 2 Th 3:13.
- Parable of neighbor and loaves 144:2.3 — Lk 11:5-8. *Ask, seek, knock*: Mt 21:22; Lk 11:5-10. *Who ask, receive*: Mt 7:7-8; Mk 11:24; Jn 14:13-14; Jn 16:24.
- Parable of haughty judge 144:2.5 — Lk 18:1-5. *Point: persistence pays*: Lk 18:6-8.