Quotes about Struggle
But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;
— John Milton
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
— John Milton
Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By
— John Milton
Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light, Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.
— John Milton
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good
— John Milton
In this unhappy Mansion, or once more 269: With rallied Arms to try what may be yet 270: Regaind in Heav'n, or what more lost in Hell?
— John Milton
Horror and doubt distract his troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir the Hell within him; for within him Hell he brings, and round about him, nor from Hell one step, no more than from himself, can fly by change of place.
— John Milton
At length from us may find, who overcomes 649: By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
— John Milton
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, that they may stumble on, and deeper fall
— John Milton
Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:
— John Milton
when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[....]
— John Newton
The question is, can a human being hold on to God in the face of suffering? After all, suffering is the test of love.
— John Ortberg