ENDURANCE

Endurance

ENDU'RANCE, noun [See Endure.] Continuance; a state of lasting or duration; lastingness.

1. A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience.

Their fortitude was most admirable in their presence and endurance of all evils, of pain, and of death.

2. Delay; a waiting for. [Not used.]

ROMANS 15:5 5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had,

Endurance is like an unshakeable rock in the winds and waves of life. However the tempest batters him, the patient man remains steadfast and does not turn back; and when he finds relief and joy, he is not carried away by self-glory: he is always the same, whether things are hard or easy, and for this reason, he is proof against the snares of the enemy. St. Peter of Damaskos (Twenty-Four Discourses no. 5, The Philokalia Vol. 3 pg. 224)

NOTHING GREAT IS EVER ACHIEVED WITHOUT GREAT ENDURING