Quotes about Struggle

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.