Quotes about Struggle

The route to facing what we feel is not by devaluing the darkness of what we feel, but by valuing the deep structure of why we don't want to feel. Once we face why feeling is so hard, then we can move beyond what we feel to the deeper energy within us that keeps us from grappling honestly with our emotions. Then we will not only feel more deeply, but—more importantly—we will feel our feelings in a way that exposes our struggle with God.

This is a day of little faith — of few convictions — a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot & hang on.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

This, I thought, is what is meant by "thy will be done" in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. It means you may be crucified.