Quotes about Struggle
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone.
— Henry Ford
I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.
— Henry Rollins
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A church debt is the devil's salary.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
— Leonard Hodgson
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
— Leonard Ravenhill