Quotes about Struggle

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

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.

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.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

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.

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.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.