Quotes about Strength In Struggle
This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. Merton, Thomas. Thoughts In Solitude (p. 8). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.
— Thomas Merton
It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.
— Isabel Allende
This is a road I must travel bleeding.
— Isabel Allende
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
— Thomas a Kempis
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
— JRR Tolkien
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
— Marcus Aurelius
Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.
— David O. McKay
A pearl of great price is our pain wrapped in God's perfection.
— Bishop TD Jakes
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
— Washington Irving
The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.
— Brother Andrew
The pain was on the surface, so it took all his will to reach upward. But maybe that's what God asked of man. To reach upward even when it's hard.
— Mary Connealy
I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.
— Barbara Kingsolver