Quotes about Struggle

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

We were shoved against the back wall. Thirty or forty people were all that could fit in. And still the soldiers drove women over the side, cursing, jabbing with their guns. Shrieks rose from the center of the car but still the press increased. It was only when eighty women were packed inside that the door thumped shut and we heard iron bolts driven into place.

On my closed eyelids the sun glimmered and blazed. "It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?" There was a very long silence. "There is great darkness," he said at last. "I cannot bear the work I do here.

It was a fact. We knew it, we experienced it minute by minute—poor, hated, hungry. We are more than conquerors. Not "we shall be." We are! Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.

At last she pointed to a second tier in the center of a large block. To reach it we had to stand on the bottom level, haul ourselves up, and then crawl across three other straw-covered platforms to reach the one that we would share with—how many?

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.

If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.

A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.

A. W. Tozer, who said, "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.

You might not have strong faith unless you push-through some honest doubts. In order to decide to trust, you have to let yourself doubt.

Pain in the moment, and hope for the future. But sometimes the pain seems to yell, while hope only whispers.

God calls you to stand. Your enemy wants you to fall. So as God's warrior, there are only two acceptable actions. You're either standing or you're getting back up. Even if Satan trips you, you're not down forever. Get back up. Never stay down.