Quotes about Struggle

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.

Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?

Satan leaves unbelievers and sinners alone because he already has them in his grip; he goes after believers who are faithful and devout.

How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the sins which you confessed.

Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles

Write, read, sing, weep, be silent, pray, endure adversities manfully; eternal life is worthy of all these conflicts, yea, and of greater.

How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the sins which you confessed. One moment you resolve to be careful, and yet after an hour you act as though you had made no resolution.

There is no man wholly free from temptations so long as he liveth, because we have the root of temptation within ourselves, in that we are born in concupiscence. One temptation or sorrow passeth, and another cometh; and always we shall have somewhat to suffer, for we have fallen from perfect happiness. Many who seek to fly from temptations fall yet more deeply into them. By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.

Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

The man who is not yet wholly dead to self, is soon tempted, and is overcome in small and trifling matters.

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find

The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;