Quotes about Struggle

Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering

27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[149] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." 29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

The worst moment for the atheist is

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I

positioned myself. I once described the people I tend to hear from as "borderlanders," those caught in a no-person's-land between faith and disbelief. Some approach the church cautiously, attracted to Jesus but turned off by his followers. Some have fled the church due to bad experiences, yet still yearn for the consolation they felt there. I've spent time in the borderlands myself and want to honor those wandering on the edges, the misfits.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to communicate the message of grace from the corridors of power.

Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.

Fear is the universal primal response to suffering. And yet beyond doubt it is also the single greatest "enemy of recovery.

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.

There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.

Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.