Quotes about Struggle

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Maybe God isn't trying to tell us anything specific each time we hurt. Pain and suffering are part and parcel of our planet, and Christians are not exempt.

I believe Christians walk a mental tightrope and are in constant danger of falling in one of two directions. On this subject, errors in thinking can have tragic results. The first error comes when we attribute all suffering to God, seeing it as his punishment for human mistakes; the second error does just the opposite, assuming that life with God will never include suffering.

It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. "People said they grew more during seasons of loss, pain, and crisis than they did at any other time." We discover the hidden value of suffering only by suffering — not as part of God's original or ultimate plan for us, but as a redemptive transformation that takes place in the midst of trial.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of

The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.