Quotes about Struggle

You may have heard the expression "greater levels, greater devils." This typically implies that when you are promoted spiritually, you should expect more intense warfare in your life. Yet what we sometimes fail to realize is that when God promotes us, He also protects us.

Believers can, however, be oppressed by coming under the control of a demonic spirit and have their lives broken into pieces through a lifestyle of sin,

C. S. Lewis put it, "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Flight from life does not exempt us from the law of age and death. The neurotic who tries to wriggle out of the necessity of living wins nothing and only burdens himself with a constant foretaste of aging and dying, which must appear especially cruel on account of the total emptiness and meaninglessness of his life.

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

God knew the man needed someone to join him in the walk of faith, to shoulder the burdens of the mission, engage in the struggles, watch his back, and stand with him against the Enemy. God had the perfect answer in mind.

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

Even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.

God gave us minds and he means for us to use them. We need to know God better, so we won't be trying to trust a stranger when the lights go out and we're in a spiritual free-fall.